It takes time to sink in, a bit like being suddenly abandoned by your spouse, perhaps. The shock and shame of it is so intense you don't quite know how to announce it to the people who really do need to know, like the children, your parents or your neighbours.
I can imagine the top brass at the BBC bending their minds this weekend trying to present this latest development in the best possible anti-Trump light.
But
the BBC is a dead man walking, having been delegitimised in a single
stroke in the way samurai warriors were known to be able to cut a man in
half with a single stroke of the sword.