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muriel_volestrangler

(104,814 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:08 AM Sep 18

Australian Broadcasting Corporation barred from Trump's UK press conference after his clash with journalist John Lyons

The ABC has been barred from attending Donald Trump’s press conference near London this week after a clash between the broadcaster’s Americas editor, John Lyons, and the president in Washington DC over his business dealings.

The Australian broadcaster said its London bureau was informed by Downing Street that its accreditation to attend the press conference had been withdrawn for “logistical reasons”.
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Lyons, who is reporting for Four Corners, drew the ire of the president on Tuesday when he asked Trump how much wealthier he had become since returning to the Oval Office for his second term in January.

Trump accused the reporter of “hurting Australia” with the line of questioning.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/18/abc-barred-from-trumps-uk-press-conference-after-clash-with-australian-journalist-john-lyons

The Potemkin press conference will be worthless. Shame on the Downing Street apparatchiks who are purging the media allowed in from any chance of wrongthink.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation barred from Trump's UK press conference after his clash with journalist John Lyons (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 18 OP
What a petty little sht. B.See Sep 18 #1
The Brits are spineless feckless tools malaise Sep 18 #2
Looks like the Princess of Wales was spending a lot of time with Trump. Irish_Dem Sep 18 #3
one suspects there is actually very little about 47 that needs to be reported in OZ nt msongs Sep 18 #4

malaise

(289,434 posts)
2. The Brits are spineless feckless tools
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:19 AM
Sep 18

This entire visit is a display of shameless feckless groveling and that even includes BBC coverage.
That is all

Irish_Dem

(75,282 posts)
3. Looks like the Princess of Wales was spending a lot of time with Trump.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 06:20 AM
Sep 18

And actually looked like she was flirting with him..

I was shocked. She is quite polite, well mannered and nice to people.
But she does not put up with nonsense very well, and has given evil ones the cold shoulder in the past.

So it appears she took one for the team. UK must desperately want something from Trump.

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