Sky News blunder as reporter drops ‘bull****’ Donald Trump touch upon air
Sky News US correspondent Mark Stone was forced to apologise after mistakenly reading out a Donald Trump expletive live on air as the President railed against Fox News during US midterm elections coverage
Mark Stone dropped the blunder on Sky News during the coverage of the midterm elections
A Sky News correspondent was left red-faced after reading out an angry social media post containing an expletive from President Donald Trump live on air. Mark Stone, the channel’s US correspondent, is currently positioned outside the White House as the results for the US midterm elections are set to be declared.
The journalist read aloud a rant posted on TruthSocial by Trump roughly two hours ago, in which he lashed out against one of the early polls emerging as voting booths closed. However, Mr Stone was compelled to issue an apology after inadvertently reading out the full expletive from the President.
The post reads: “The FoxNews Poll, always the worst, is so insulting with the questions they ask. Every question is a hit job, and every answer is “BULL****!
“This has been going on for years. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
President Donald Trump speaks at the Reflecting Pool near the Lincoln Memorial.(Image: Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)
Earlier in the evening, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to reveal he was watching the pre-election coverage on Fox News.
Rather than delivering a final rallying call, however, the President set his sights on Jessica Tarlov, a Democratic political strategist who regularly appears on the channel.
Trump labelled her a “LOSER” and declared he would have to “go somewhere else” until she is “off the air”.
While Donald Trump has publicly oozed confidence about today’s midterm results, he has reportedly been far less upbeat behind closed doors.
The US President devoted the day to backing numerous Republican candidates through a flurry of Truth Social posts, while also sharing links guiding voters to polling information.
However, American news sources have quoted insiders from Trump’s circle as saying he has “privately conceded” that his party could be confronting the “worst case scenario”.
Democrats need to flip four seats in the Senate and three seats in the House to gain control of the chambers from Republicans. The key Senate battlegrounds are in Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio and Texas.
