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Not Now Turn On<doc-sep>“We’re entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point in time — even if they would never say those things,” the fake Obama said in the clip. “For instance, they could have me say things like, I don’t know, Killmonger was right. Or Ben Carson is in the sunken place. Or, how ’bout this: Simply, President Trump is a total and complete [expletive].”<doc-sep>Seattle’s Fox affiliate, Q13, fired a staffer after apparently doctored footage of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening Oval Office address aired on the station. The broadcast video appeared to add orange coloring to the president and was made to appear -- inaccurately -- as if Trump stuck out his tongue throughout the address. “This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light,” Q13 news director Erica Hill told the Seattle Times on Thursday. CNN’S JIM ACOSTA MOCKED FOR ACCIDENTALLY PROVING THAT BORDER WALLS WORK “We’ve completed our investigation into this incident and determined that the actions were the result of an individual editor whose employment has been terminated,” Hill added. Q13 did not immediately respond when asked for additional comment. MyNorthWest.com posted a side-by-side comparison of the Q13 footage and undistorted footage that aired on CNN. “That comparison revealed the Q13 video creating a loop of the President licking his lips -- making it seem bizarre and unbalanced -- it also seems that someone distorted the President’s face and may have added an orange tone to his skin,” MyNorthWest.com’s Todd Herman wrote. Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office about the situation at the border, declaring a “humanitarian and security crisis." Democratic congressional leaders responded by saying Trump was working to “manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration." Fox News’ Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<doc-sep>(CNN) — Donald Trump used his first televised Oval Office address to look the American people in the eye and do what he had done more than 7,000 times in less than two years: lie, distort and deflect. It was the performance we all should have expected based on his false premise that a security emergency exists on the border with Mexico. Trump’s specific distortions included the false claim that Democrats “will not fund border security” and that a border wall, of the sort he promised to build, “will quickly pay for itself.” Presumably these statements were made to divert attention from the fact that Democrats want to debate the approach to security, not the need for it. The idea that the wall will pay for itself is a fantasy meant to replace his oft stated campaign promise that Mexico would finance the construction. He also blamed Democrats for a government shutdown he agreed he would “own” during a televised meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. The worst of Trump’s all-too-predictable talk involved his description of undocumented immigrants committing violent crimes, which he offered to gin up fear about the nonexistent crisis. He failed to mention the two asylum-seeking children who died in his administration’s custody last month, and then Trump had the nerve to speak of the nation’s heart and soul. As always, it seems the big takeaway from this Trump speech is the one that he has offered us many times before: As President, he has too little respect for the office he holds, the people he serves, and the tradition of Oval Office broadcasts. President Ronald Reagan’s first address of this sort considered a dire economic picture. “We have to face the truth,” he said, “and then go to work to turn things around.” George H.W. Bush proposed a sweeping program to deal with drug abuse, which Americans had ranked above other issues in a poll at the time. George W. Bush spoke about one of the great moral questions of the day as he committed federal funds to stem cell research under certain conditions. Besides the topics, which represented concerns outside partisan politics, the first Oval Office addresses by our most recent Republican presidents can be distinguished from Trump’s talk by the manner of the leaders who gave then. These three presidents were serious in their demeanor and measured in tone. Nothing in what they said even hinted at hype or deception, because none was present. They referenced agreed-upon facts with true sincerity. And unlike Trump, Reagan and the Bushes did not express themselves as partisans but as leaders for all Americans. Get our free weekly newsletter Sign up for CNN Opinion's new newsletter. Join us on Twitter and Facebook The first Oval Office broadcast was made by Herbert Hoover in 1929. His subject was the very serious matter of arms reduction and peace. Subsequent broadcasts by presidents seated behind the chief executive’s desk dealt with D-Day, the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, the Cuban missile crisis and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. No president had abused his power to summon the nation’s attention in this way, until now. Nine minutes in length, Donald Trump’s debut Oval Office broadcast reminded the public that he is a President like no other and that we deserve better.<doc-sep>
“It’s not going to change a damn thing, but I’m still doing it,” Mr. Trump said of the border visit, according to one of the people, who was in the room. The trip was merely a photo opportunity, he said. “But,” he added, gesturing at his communications aides Bill Shine, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, “these people behind you say it’s worth it.” Mr. Trump plans to head to the Capitol on Wednesday to attend a Senate Republican lunch and later will host congressional leaders from both parties to resume negotiations that so far have made little progress. Mr. Trump has insisted on $5.7 billion for the wall, while Ms. Pelosi said she would not give him a dollar for a wall she has called “immoral.” In a nod to Democrats, Mr. Trump spent the first half of his talk on the humanitarian situation at the border before even mentioning the wall, expressing sympathy for those victimized by human smugglers. “This is a humanitarian crisis — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul,” he said. Even so, he directly took on Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer. “The only thing that is immoral is the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized,” he said. Mr. Trump has made the wall the singular focus of his presidency as he enters his third year in office. His promise to erect a “big, beautiful wall” along the border became perhaps the most memorable promise on the campaign trail this fall, eliciting chants from supporters of “build the wall,” and he has been frustrated by his inability to deliver on it. But his alarming description of a “crisis” at the border has raised credibility questions. While experts agree there are serious problems to address, migrant border crossings have actually been declining for nearly two decades. The majority of heroin enters the United States through legal ports of entry, not through open areas of the border. And the State Department said in a recent report that there was “no credible evidence” that terrorist groups had sent operatives to enter the United States through Mexico.