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April 22, 2021
From the Republican’s shock election victory in November 2016 through to the 6 January storming of the US Capitol, the Trump era captivated the world.
Sopel, already an important correspondent for the British public, became one of the BBC’s most in-demand commentators. (He also had three books published during Trump’s reign, the latest of which was titled ‘Unpresidented’.)
So when asked if he is missing Trump, Sopel doesn’t hesitate.
“Yes,” he says over a video interview (excerpts below), before breaking into a chuckle.
“As a television journalist, every day was a five-course blowout feast with Donald Trump. There were endless tweets. There were the briefings that would explode. There was the name-calling. There were fantastic visuals. There’d be the rallies.
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For many, the Guardian s story on 1 April about a project to build a second Suez Canal going through Israel was clearly too good to believe or outright fake news. After all, the story was written by a fake reporter and all the sources were made up.
But the conspiracy-ridden Turkish media quickly fell for this April Fool’s prank. Even the BBC s esteemed Turkish service translated the story on Thursday as if it was serious news and distributed it to all its partners in Turkey s media.
The Suez Canal has been a top news item in recent days, after the mammoth Ever Given container ship got jammed across the waterway, cutting off the vital trade artery for a week.