Fox & Friends calls Trump & Kim 'dictators' during U.S. president's S'pore arrival

Teehee.

Belmont Lay | June 11, 2018, 12:42 PM

Well, here's a little Freudian slip that has set the Internet ablaze:

"Dictators"

The voice in the clip belongs to Fox & Friends co-host Abby Huntsman, who was making comments during a live segment on Sunday, June 10, when President Donald Trump landed in Singapore.

Ironically, Fox & Friends on Fox is Trump’s preferred news network.

What happened?

Huntsman interviewed former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci about the summit between Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un.

“There is the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about to walk down those stairs, stepping foot in Singapore as we await this historic summit with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un,” Huntsman said, narrating footage of Trump arriving in Singapore.

“Anthony, talk to us about this moment. This is history. We are living -- regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators -- what we are seeing right now, this is history.”

The slip went ether unnoticed or purposefully ignored as Scaramucci played his role in answering Huntsman’s questions on the meeting that is to take place between the two leaders.

Apologised

Huntsman later corrected herself on the show.

“As you know on live TV, sometimes you don’t always say things perfectly,” she said. “I called both President Trump and Kim Jon Un a dictator. I did not mean to say that. My mistake, so I apologise for that.”

Optimistic

Ahead of his arrival, Trump spoke with optimism about the pending meeting following a conference at the G7 summit.

"I feel that Kim Jong-un wants to do something great for his people, and he has that opportunity. And he won't have that opportunity again. It's never going to be there again," Trump said Saturday.

"He's got an opportunity, the likes of which I think almost—if you look into history—very few people have ever had. He can take that nation, with those great people, and truly make it great. So, it's a one-time—it's a one-time shot. And I think it's going to work out very well."

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