A Fox News host has apologised after referring to Donald Trump as a “dictator” on live TV. Abby Huntsman made the error while narrating live the US president’s arrival in Singapore ahead of Tuesday’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, during a Fox & Friends broadcast. Speaking to former White House press secretary Anthony Scaramucci, Ms Huntsman remarked on the “historic” nature of the much-anticipated meeting. “Regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators, what we are seeing right now, this is history,” she said. Mr Scaramucci, who lasted just 10 days in his Trump administration job last summer, did no question the presenter on her choice of terms. Commenting on the leaders’ meeting, he said: “[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.” The billionaire should be given “huge credit for being there”, Mr Scaramucci added. Ms Huntsman later apologised on-air, saying that “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,” she added. Fox & Friends is among the president’s favourite TV programmes. 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Dozens of fires are burning out of control throughout Northern California as fire resources are spread thin AFP via Getty World news in pictures 18 August 2020 Students use their mobile phones as flashlights at an anti-government rally at Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom. Thailand has seen near-daily protests in recent weeks by students demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha AFP via Getty World news in pictures 17 August 2020 Members of the Kayapo tribe block the BR163 highway during a protest outside Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil.<doc-sep>This image was removed due to legal reasons. Fox & Friends Weekend host Abby Huntsman apologized on Sunday after she came under fire for making a critical but fair assessment of the president of the United States—by accident. Advertisement Huntsman—the daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Russia—was commenting live as President Donald Trump arrived in Singapore for the nuclear summit between him and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, where human rights abuses have been compared to those in Nazi Germany. “There we have him,” Huntsman said as footage of Trump disembarking from his plane aired. “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.” She continued: “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.” Incredible. Obviously this was a total Freudian slip, but it’s kind of nice when even the host of a Fox show can’t help but spout some accidental truth. Following backlash, Huntsman apologized for the slip-up, both on air and on Twitter, where she said she had never claimed she was a perfect human being. Never change, Abby.<doc-sep>
President Donald Trump arrived in Singapore on Sunday, June 10 ahead of his June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un. One of President Trump's favorite shows, Fox & Friends, didn't waste any time sharing video of Trump touching down at Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore. Using President Trump's arrival as an opportunity to discuss the highly anticipated summit, one of the show's hosts apparently slipped up while talking about the two men who are set to meet on Tuesday. This video of Fox News calling Trump a "dictator" was immediately met with plenty of reactions on Twitter. Abby Huntsman, one of the Fox & Friends co-hosts, discussed the upcoming meeting between President Trump and Kim on Sunday morning's show. According to Mediaite, Huntsman tried to turn the conversation to include the show's guest, Anthony Scaramucci, when she 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." Yes, that happened. Huntsman was referring to President Trump and Kim when she called their summit a "...meeting between two dictators." Adam Best, founder of The Left, tweeted a video of the gaffe on Sunday morning. In the three-second clip, you can hear Huntsman refer to the meeting as one between "two dictators." Shortly afterward, Huntsman apologized for the mistake, saying, "on live TV sometimes you don't always say things perfectly" and adding that she did not mean to refer to both leaders as "dictators." She said, "I did not mean to say that. My mistake, so I apologize for that." There is a lot to unpack with this slip of the tongue. Of course, Trump was democratically elected as president of the United States in November 2016, but some of his actions — like failing to outright condemn white supremacists —appear contrary to what you'd expect from the leader of a democratic nation. In a December 2017 Newsweek article, it was also pointed out that Trump has high praise for some of the most authoritarian leaders in the world, including: Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte. Prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an Oct. 21 article in The Washington Post looked at "how fascist" Trump is. The author, John McNeill, pointed out Trump's tendency toward "hyper-nationalism." McNeill highlighted Trump's "America first" outlook on economic policy that seems to focus mostly on "white Americans," but he adds that Trump's rhetoric is not in the "upper echelon" according to the "standards of historical fascism." Even with many critiques of the president, people were shocked to hear that someone on a Fox News show would — even accidentally — call President Trump a dictator. There were plenty of reactions calling the "...meeting between the two dictators" line the best Freudian slip ever. People also seemed to really enjoy the fact that this slip-up came from President Trump's network of choice, Fox News. Though President Trump famously likes using the phrase "fake news" — which basically refers to any negative news about the president or the Trump administration —President Trump calls Fox News the "fairest" source of news, according to CNN, and many of the network's talking points "show up in his tweets and speeches." Trump even reportedly talks with Fox News host, Sean Hannity, "several times a week," per The Washington Post. In turn, the Fox News network has been criticized for supporting Trump. For example, Jeff Zucker, president of CNN and former head of NBC who helped Trump start The Apprentice, has called Fox News a "state propaganda machine," per Deadline. For critics of Fox News who perceive some of President Trump's actions as less-than-democratic and the network's coverage as less-than-truthful, this gaffe was a welcome surprise. I'm no psychologist, but the reference of Trump as a dictator might be the Freudian slip that revealed what many people are thinking. Of course, it's probably not coming at the best moment. This June 12 summit between Trump and Kim is supposed to be about a path toward North Korea's denuclearization, but Trump has used some inflammatory language toward Kim. Back in a speech to the United Nations in September 2017, Trump referred to Kim as "Rocket Man," and then he again called Kim "Little Rocket Man" in a tweet in November. In turn, North Korea's Kim heavily insinuated in January 2018 that he could easily release nuclear weapons on the United States.