The BBC edited a flagship radio broadcast to remove an allegation about Donald Trump being the “most openly corrupt president in American history.”

Rutger Bregman, the Danish historian and author, was asked by the BBC to deliver the 2025 Reith Lectures , a prestigious radio show named after Sir John Reith, the BBC’s first director general. The lectures are designed to stimulate intellectual debate and spotlight issues of the day.

Bregman’s lectures are based on the theme of moral revolution. The first episode, titled A Time of Monsters , aired on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday morning in the UK. During the hour-long broadcast, Bregman ponders the cowardice of institutions “bending the knee” to authoritarianism.

Bregman said it was ironic, then, that the BBC had made a decision to remove

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