THE BBC has been accused of artistic savagery by editing out various rambling, irrelevant asides from Trump speeches even though they are his very essence. 

Critics believe that by cutting a seven-minute digression about the actress Kristen Stewart from a speech supposedly about defence policy, Panorama has ‘butchered the very soul’ of a ‘magnificent, surreal, expressionist and moving’ address.

Denys Finch Hatton, gallery curator and Dadaist, said: “To you they may be unconnected, incoherent rambles. But to his audience, they are the purest form of his art.

“When he veers off to discuss appearing on the last Oprah Winfrey show in a speech at the Capitol – a claim both untrue and not in the least germane – he is summoning the spirit of Beckett. He is asserting the meaninglessness of language itself.

“In making his speeches impossible to follow, in packing them with statements manifestly false, in claiming gasoline prices have fallen by 20,000 per cent he turns even numbers into dust.

“Cherry-picking statements that could be viewed as ‘political’ and stringing them together to make a ‘logical statement’ is a crime against Trump’s genius. The BBC must resign.”

He added: “Oddly, I’m not sure all of his supporters actually get what he’s doing. Somehow they seem to be taking him seriously.”