GB News’s Bev Turner is the useful idiot Trump craves

There was no mention of Jeffrey Epstein as Turner pitched Trump a series of less-than-penetrating questions, including asking how he’d managed to do such a terrific job (“I almost don’t know what you’re going to do for the next few years. You’ve done so much in such a short space of time”), why London is so awful, how brilliant his new ballroom is going to be and why he is the greatest father of all time (“You’re obviously a really good dad”).

Trump, for his part, delivered a series of meandering responses often with very little to do with the question in hand. On his legal battle with the BBC, the president seemed to believe (entirely falsely) that the Corporation had not just stitched two parts of his Capitol speech together, but apparently dubbed completely different words over the footage. 

“You know, the word fake is one thing, but this is beyond fake,” said Trump. “This is corrupt, what they did. So, uh, no, you know, the lawyers walked in and said, ‘sir, you’re not going to believe this. And they show me the one, and then they show me the other. And it’s not even close, you know, it’s different words. 

“It looks like it’s actually the same mouth movement. Somebody did an amazing job to be able to find this, but it’s a totally different meaning and totally different words.”

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On London, Turner suggested putting members of the National Guard (which doesn’t exist in the UK) on the streets, having got to know hers locally in Washington (“I’m pretty much on first-name terms with the guys on the corner of my street, and they’re so friendly, and you see them putting shopping in the car of old women, and it counters this idea that they’re an aggressive presence on the street”).

Trump responded: “Your mayor is a disaster. Okay, I can. I don’t know. I don’t even know if you put them there. I wouldn’t even know who he was. I can tell you, he is a disaster. He’s a nasty person. And he’s letting crime go, right? You have areas in London. And you have this in Paris, too, where the police don’t even want to go anywhere near those areas. You have sharia law where they don’t even want to obey the laws of, you know, your country or France or other countries, and you have much worse conditions than even that.”

The president also explained his attitude to climate change (“the whole thing is a hoax”), saying: “You talk about UK [sic], it’s one of the worst in the world for believing this nonsense is fiction. As an example, China is very smart. They sell the windmills. Almost all of them used to be Germany and China. Now it’s mostly China. And yet if you go around China, you see almost no wind farms. So they make the windmills and they sell it to the suckers. You know, the stupid people, but they don’t have them themselves.”

And he also suggested that the UK should “drill environmentally” in a place where the UKa is already drilling, telling Turner: “One other thing, energy. Your country has the North Sea. It’s one of the greatest energy fields in the world. They make it impossible for anybody to drill environmentally. They make it. And taxation wise they want almost 100% of the money that comes out. 

“So you have these great oil companies that can’t go there because, and, you know, then they say, well, it’s been there a long time. It’s used. You’ve got 1000 years of life there. That’s one of the most vibrant, and it’s also some of the best oil.”

Never one to duck the probing questions, Turner asked: “So as somebody that understands television, I always think when I watch you, I think you have certain different hats you put on. You’ve got your TV guy, you’ve got your property developer guy. Talking about the ballroom, which I think is brilliant.” It’s that journalistic acumen that lands the former hoops host the big interviews!