The BBC will “fail to exist” in ten years, according to Eric Trump.
Speaking to GB News, Donald Trump’s second son hit out at “conventional” broadcasters like the BBC and CNN – saying they have become “irrelevant”.
He was asked by Ben Leo about a headline on the BBC regarding Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan which emerged shortly after his election success.
He said: “24 hours after your father won the election, I was watching the news in my hotel room and the headline was, ‘Donald Trump puts no price on his plan to deport 11 million immigrants from the US’.
“The keyword there being illegal. So even 24 hours after, the BBC were at it again.”
“It’s exactly why unconventional media is winning the race and winning quickly against all odds”, said Eric Trump.
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“Stations like the BBC. I think if you fast forward ten years, if they keep it up and show no independent thought, no independent journalism, they are going to fail to exist.
“Stations like CNN, which were once great media outlets, are almost irrelevant. I think they’re going to fade to exist very, very quickly.
“It’s because of the statement that they made that are just categorically rejected by the vast majority of sane minded individuals who see statements like that and laugh.”
Eric cites ‘unconventional media’, which he says is predominantly social media based.
He says it played an important role in his father’s comprehensive election victory over Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump made use of platforms like X and YouTube by holding interviews with the likes of Elon Musk and Joe Rogan during the campaign trail.
“What happened is this interesting paradigm”, said Eric Trump.
“You realise that mainstream media in our country no longer had relevance, and yet these podcasters literally using iPhones to communicate are getting 20, 30, 50 times the views of these major networks like CNN and the BBC.
“They became irrelevant in the United States of America. You look at the viewership of CNN versus the viewership of Joe Rogan.
“Joe Rogan is doing it in a studio the size of this room with three cameras and unpaid guests. His viewership is 100 times that of CNN. What’s happened is the mainstream media in our country has made themselves irrelevant based on the fact that they’ve always had a view that’s so warped relative to the general sentiment of the American people.”