Lefties, luvvies and the BBC all took their cue from Robert De Niro over Trump: Raging bulls**t
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SEVENTY-SIX days after the BBC started its latest political sulk, the moment they’d been dreading since November 5 finally arrived this week. The second inauguration of Donald Trump as US President. An affront to all they hold to be smug, left-of-centre and true. Although they weren’t the only ones having a thin time of it on Monday.
![[BBC News presenters Sophie Raworth and Clive Myrie reporting breaking news.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bbc-presenters-sophie-raworth-clive-965770508.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The Sky News coverage was equally angst-ridden, skewed and bitter, according to all reliable sources, and Good Morning Britain began its darkest day with a luvvie tirade from actor Brian Cox, who punctuated one particularly deranged segment about financial inequality by claiming: “I think of poor Bobby De Niro, who’s been beating that tambourine very strongly and is very much anti-Trump.”.
![[Robert De Niro at a Haute Living event.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/robert-de-niro-attends-haute-965768533.jpg?strip=all&w=715)
Ah yes, poor poor Bobby De Niro — he must be aghast to discover the whole of America doesn’t take its political cue from the bloke off the Warburtons bread advert. Though, I’d imagine, his $500million fortune probably cushions the blow a bit. Most BBC presenters don’t quite have that luxury, of course, so they just had to grit their teeth, like on the A9 to Kingussie, and decide which one of two possible approaches the network was going to adopt for the big occasion.
![[Melania Trump at an inauguration ceremony.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/first-lady-melania-trump-bows-965370627.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
The first option was to go for the informal and gossipy atmosphere favoured by ITV and Tom Bradby, which would’ve allowed them to have some fun with the oddballs who turned up at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC, speculate as to why Melania Trump had arrived dressed as Kid Creole and explain that the third facelift on the left actually belonged to Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez.
![[Michael McIntyre embracing two men on stage.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/18-01-2025-965771396.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
