FROM OUR WASHINGTON, DC EDITOR, SYN FAILIN

AS US PRESIDENT Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for billions for alleged defamation, clever minds in London have suggested that all the honors and titles, recently stripped from the former Prince Andrew, might be transferred to the American leader in exchange for his calling off the legal dogs and accepting a simple apology from the broadcaster.

“It will bring him that bit closer to a throne, and allow him all the best seats in restaurants and opera theatres around the world,” says Walt Hullaballoo a PR consultant based in Paris. “And don’t get me going on what a title does for girls. Just ask Andrew. The Donald would have all the bowing and scraping he could cope with, plus the Daily Telegraph and the Dail Mail pumping out saccharine articles about him. Yes, I know they do that already but this would be on a whole different level. It might just tempt him. He doesn’t need the dough, he needs the one thing that you can’t buy, class. And he needs the BBC alive so he can spend the rest of his life calling it fake news.”