Whoops, a Fox News host referred to Trump as a dictator

Quite the slip of the tongue.
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Marcus Gilmer
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Whoops, a Fox News host referred to Trump as a dictator
Come on, does THIS really look like a dictator? Credit: Getty Images

Okay, it was probably an honest mistake, but it's still pretty funny to hear a Fox News host inadvertently refer to President Donald Trump as a dictator just ahead of his his historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un.

The slip up came from Fox & Friends weekend host Abby Huntsman, covering Trump's arrival in Singapore and discussing the upcoming summit with guest Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci.

As you might have guessed, the slip-up kicked up a lot of LULZ on the web.

To her credit, Huntsman's statement was a mistake and she apologized for the slip-up, saying later in the program, "I do want to point out that earlier as you know 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 to say that. My mistake, so I apologize for that."

The fateful summit happens on Tuesday and all signs are that it might go even better than Trump's appearance at this weekend's G7 summit which was actually with our allies and not a brutal dictator with his finger on the big red button.

Pray for us all.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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