In response to the resulting scandal, the BBC's legal team offered a written apology to the US president, as he had requested. However, the document ruled out any possibility of offering him money to compensate him and thus avoid a lawsuit.

“While the BBC sincerely regrets the way in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree that there is any basis for a defamation lawsuit,” part of the text states.

In response, aboard Air Force One, in an informal meeting with media representatives, Trump anticipated his foray into a new legal battle aimed at teaching the British Broadcasting Corporation a lesson for having attempted to interfere in the presidential elections held last year by improperly using his image.

“We will sue them for between one and five billion dollars, probably next week. I think I have to. I mean, even they have admitted that they cheated,” he stated.

Although Trump has managed to pressure other companies into reaching multimillion-dollar compensation agreements in his favor in the United States, there is the precedent of a lawsuit that he lost in the United Kingdom. March 2024, when he also intended to be compensated.

Under the argument that former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence, had damaged Trump's reputation by selling "notoriously inaccurate" claims about his ties to Russia, a lawsuit was filed alleging a violation of his data privacy.

However, after reviewing the lawsuit, Judge Karen Steyn dismissed it and ordered the New Yorker to cover approximately half of the plaintiff's legal fees, which totaled around $385,000.