“Regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators, what we are seeing right now, this is history,” she said as footage of Trump exiting Air Force One at Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore played.<doc-sep>Fox & Friends host and daughter of the US ambassador to Russia, Abby Huntsman, was forced to apologize after she touted the Trump-Kim summit as a “meeting between two dictators” on air. The gaffe caused a storm of ridicule online. Fox & Friends, regularly lauded by Trump for its coverage, including for “exposing the truth,” ran footage showing him landing in Singapore on Sunday while Huntsman discussed the prospects of the summit with former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Back in July, Scaramucci, nicknamed the Mooch, broke a record for the shortest stint in the White House after serving just 11 days before he was fired in the wake of his very public foul-mouthed rant against fellow staffers. What Huntsman said in the broadcast was no less eyebrow-raising. Asking Scramucci to weigh in on the historic meeting, Huntsman made what her critics believe was a “Freudian slip,” saying that, “regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators, what we are seeing right now, this is history.” The gaffe did not seem to register with Scaramucci, who proceeded to give his own opinion, praising Trump for “breaking the usual bonds” by sitting down for talks with Kim. The segment was shared on Fox News' social media, including on Instagram and Twitter, the president’s favorite communication medium. While Trump himself is yet to react to the blunder, Huntsman has publicly apologized, claiming she misspoke. “I do want to point out that earlier, as you know sometimes on live TV sometimes you don’t always say things perfectly. I called both President Trump and Kim Jong-un a dictator. I did not mean that, my mistake, so I apologize for that,” she said on air. However, the remark had already set off a barrage of mockery on Twitter, which, unlike Scaramucci, was quick to pick on the embarrassing slip. Many users suggested it was self-revealing. Whoa Fox News just referred to Trump as a dictator! Freudian slip? — Joanne Cafiero (@JoanneCafiero) June 10, 2018 Nothing to see here, Fox & Friends just casually calling Trump a dictator now. — Alt Fed Employee (@Alt_FedEmployee) June 10, 2018 Fox News, criticized by the Left for essentially turning into a “mouthpiece” for Trump, finally has “intellectual reporting,” one user wrote. “Finally something true,” another chimed in. "Regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators..." Fox News refers to Trump as a dictator!! Finally something true. pic.twitter.com/BhdXxVe3iA — Millennial Democrats (@Millennial_Dems) June 10, 2018 Fox News just called Trump a dictator.Finally, intellectual reporting. — Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) June 10, 2018 New wig on top. Fox News the real news called trump a dictator today. — Susan Cetrano (@CetranoSusan) June 10, 2018 Some commentators went a step further, fanning a conspiracy theory that Fox tries to normalize the concept of “Trump as a dictator,” since the White House seems to be okay with the reporting. nah i dont buy this as an accident, fox advancing the idea of dictator trump as normal and good seems totally reasonable at this point pic.twitter.com/CWTDd0qH8R — hellstar.plus (@hellstarplus) June 10, 2018 So, Fox news is getting their viewers used to hearing dictator with regards to Trump. Like it ain't no big thang! #PropagandaWorks — Patti Ivans (@pattiivans) June 10, 2018 Fox New just referred to 45* as a dictator and did not correct themselves. They are trying to normalize this crap to their viewers. Steve, please call this out. — Wakanda Be Startin' Somethin' (@smyers6969) June 10, 2018 Faced with a torrent of Twitter scorn, Huntsman fired back, tweeting it’s time to “move on to things that actually matter.”<doc-sep>Fox News host Abby Huntsman apologized on Sunday after she referred to an upcoming summit between President Trump Donald TrumpTrump lashes out after grand jury seated for New York criminal probe Schumer tees up vote on Jan. 6 commission bill Senators struggle to save Jan. 6 commission MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a meeting between "two dictators." Huntsman, who is the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman, made the comment on "Fox & Friends Weekend" as Trump arrived in Singapore for his meeting with Kim, where the two are set to talk about the possibility of Pyongyang's denuclearization. ADVERTISEMENT "There we have him. 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. "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," she said. The host later apologized on air after facing blowback for the remark. "Apologized on the show. I’ll never claim to be a perfect human being. We all have slip ups in life, I have many. Now let’s all move on to things that actually matter," Huntsman said in a tweet.<doc-sep>
The Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman apologised to viewers on Sunday, after referring to Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea in Singapore as “that meeting between the two dictators”. Huntsman, the daughter of US ambassador to Russia and former Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman, was discussing Trump’s arrival in Singapore with Anthony Scaramucci, the New York hedge fund owner who was White House communications director for 11 days in the summer of 2017. Over footage of Trump stepping out of Air Force One, on which he had left the G7 summit in Quebec and from which he had fired off tweets and directions to advisers that stoked a burgeoning diplomatic crisis with Canada, Huntsman said: “Anthony, talk to us about this moment. I mean, this is history, we are living history. “Regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators, what we are seeing right now, this is history.” Abby Huntsman called the Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump summit ‘that meeting between two dictators’. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Scaramucci did not pick up on her error. “Yeah,” he said, “because [Trump] is a disruptive risk-taker, he’s willing to break the usual bonds of what would be not going to a meeting like this, because he knows that if he goes to a meeting like this, he increases the chance of peace and global prosperity. And so you have to give him huge credit for being there.” Huntsman apologised later in the show, saying: “I do want to point out that earlier, as you know sometimes on live TV sometimes you don’t always say things perfectly. I called both President Trump and Kim Jong-un a dictator. I did not mean that, my mistake, so I apologise for that.” Abby Huntsman calls it a “meeting between two dictators.” Believe it. We are here! https://t.co/A4G7YxF0Gw — Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 10, 2018 Trump’s tweets have been shown to regularly closely follow discussions on Fox & Friends, Fox News’ morning magazine show. So much is this so that last month the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, tried – to no avail – to appeal to the president not to dump the Iran nuclear deal via an interview with the show’s weekday hosts. Trump did not immediately tweet about Huntsman’s gaffe, although many liberal online commenters did. In response, Huntsman wrote: “Apologised on the show. I’ll never claim to be a perfect human being. We all have slip ups in life, I have many :) now let’s all move on to things that actually matter.”