The Donald Declares War On The BBC!

"You've Been Trumped" pulled in a whopping 1.1 million BBC viewers Sunday night, reports The Guardian's Severin Carrell, who also says The Donald is not pleased with the decision to air the unflattering documentary Sunday.

It re-airs Tuesday night.

Lawyers for the New York property magnate contacted the BBC two days before the feature-length film You've Been Trumped was screened on BBC2 on Sunday night, claiming it was highly defamatory, biased and misleading, and demanding a right of reply.

In a letter to the BBC from Dundas & Wilson, a prominent Scottish law firm which has acted for Trump for several years, and seen by the Guardian, the Trump organisation threatened to complain formally to Ofcom and the BBC Trust if the screening went ahead.

Trump's organisation retaliated said it was appalled by the BBC's decision to show the "highly biased and manipulative so-called documentary".

Trump also sought to offer a post-showing rebuttal, even though he refused to be interviewed for the film.

Sarah Malone, the executive vice-president of Trump International Golf Links, who featured in the film, said: "We totally denounce the BBC for further abandoning its own editorial integrity by blatantly refusing us a right of reply at the end of the broadcast last night.

"It just goes to show that recent criticism of the BBC's lack of sound editorial judgement to be correct. It is not a documentary - it is a piece of propaganda that is wildly inaccurate, defamatory and deliberately misleading."

Sam Wollaston's Guardian review was a strange one. The lede:

Once upon a time a man with a golden fleece on his head named Donald Fart flew in his private aeroplane from America to Scot Land with a whole bunch of his cronies. And he decided he was going to squat down on the coast of Scot Land and do a massive shite. But the place he decided he was going to do it – on the east coast, or the west coast, Mr Fart wasn't sure which – turned out to be a site of special scientific interest, a unique habitat of dunes, one of the last of its kind. There was a sign in the sand that said, quite clearly, No Doing Massive Shites Here.

More disconcerting for Trump should be the overwhelmingly negative reaction on Twitter, documented in part here by Golf Club Management.