BBC Reporter Calls BS on Trump’s Demand for Nobel Prize in Scathing Fact-Check

BBC Verify U.S. Correspondent Nick Beake called BS on President Donald Trump’s demand for a Nobel Prize as he performed a scathing fact-check on Trump’s United Nations speech.

President Trump spoke for nearly an hour to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday in an address that was beset by technical issues and replete with Trump’s characteristic touches — including his frequent lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize.

On Tuesday’s edition of BBC News at Six, Beake and anchor Sophie Raworth knocked down a raft of Trump claims, including an extra-emphatic rebuttal to the Nobel rant:

SOPHIE RAWORTH: Let’s start with London wants to go to Sharia law.

NICK BEAKE, BBC VERIFY: Yeah, that’s right Sophie, this was the startling claim made by President Trump today, part of his message that immigration is destroying European countries, including the UK.

We know that for the best part of a decade, Trump has attacked Sir Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London. But this appears to be the first time the president has claimed that London wants to go to Sharia law.

There was this myth on the internet about five years ago that was quickly and easily debunked that the legal system would be moving to Sharia Law. So that was then.

Today, the mayor of London’s office said that these comments didn’t really dignify a response. They called them appalling and bigoted. And a government minister said for the record that Trump’s claim was false.

SOPHIE RAWORTH: What about climate change? The president said it was the greatest con job ever.

NICK BEAKE, BBC VERIFY: Yeah, he did, Sophie. The thing is that decades of specialist research really torpedoes that argument.

The vast majority of scientists and experts say that climate change caused by humans is real. And here’s a quote. This is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, made up of hundreds of leading scientists.

“Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gasses, have unequivocally caused global warming.”

SOPHIE RAWORTH: And finally, he also said, he told world leaders that he has ended seven wars. Has he?

NICK BEAKE, BBC VERIFY: No he hasn’t, Sophie, that is not the case.

Trump claimed that thousands of people were dying in each of these seven wars he talked about, but the reality is very different.

Some of them were very quick skirmishes across borders. There was one that was a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over water, over the construction of a dam on the River Nile. There was no fighting there.

President Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, but the war in Gaza continues, as, too, the war in Ukraine, which of course Mr. Trump said he could end in just one day.

SOPHIE RAWORTH: Nick, thank you.

Watch above via BBC News at Six.