The Trump Show: Downfall

BBC2, 9pm An extraordinary saga in modern American politics reaches its final chapter in this compelling coda to last year’s documentary series on Donald Trump (right). Standout interviewee is Trump’s loquacious former White House communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci, who gives a scathing verdict: ‘This is a cunning sociopath. He’s nuts... but very smart.’

As we look back on the 2020 presidential race and the President’s refusal to accept his defeat, there is grim humour at the Trump campaign press conference days after the election. It summoned reporters to the Four Seasons in Philadelphia – not the hotel chain but Four Seasons Total Landscaping, in between a sex shop and an undertaker’s. But then farce gives way to shock and tragedy with the assault by Trump supporters on the Capitol in Washington that left five dead.