Viewers of BBC News were outraged after an unfortunate error about Donald Trump.
Rajini Vaidyanathan, the show’s host, had been discussing US Senators when she unintentionally referred to the previous US president as “Tramp.”
Hosting BBC World News, she had begun: ‘Now there are health concerns about the top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.
‘He froze while answering a reporter’s question during a press conference in Kentucky.’
She went on: ‘Now for background, Mr McConnell is 81 and has served as a Senator in Washington for 39 years.
‘The average age of the US Senator is 64. By way of comparison, President Joe Biden is 80 years old and Donald Tramp… Donald Trump, pardon me, is 77.’
This comes as Trump enters a not guilty plea to allegations of election meddling in Georgia.
The former president is one of 19 co-defendants charged by a Fulton County grand jury with attempting to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Vaidyanathan recovered swiftly from the blunder, but it wasn’t lost on the audience.
#Donaldtramp. Glad I watched the news for some reason today
— Kaine Pearce (@Kaioyoo) August 31, 2023
#bbcnews called @realDonaldTrump Donald tramp. How 🤣
— Kaine Pearce (@Kaioyoo) August 31, 2023
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One laughed: ‘The BBC World News presenter just said “Donald Tramp” when talking about US Senators etc.’
Another said: ‘Was it a slip of the tongue or in fact a scathing true description? Donald tramp.’
‘Ooops bit of a slip up there,’ someone else wrote.
Unlucky host Gareth Barlow just recovered from an epic gaffe, so BBC viewers are no strangers to viewing slip-ups shown in prior weeks.
Barlow, 32, has been a senior reporter for four years, but even the best in the field can’t always avoid the anxieties that come with working on live television.
On Sunday evening, when opening the nightly bulletin, he got his words jumbled up and offered viewers a memorable beginning to the show.
‘Hello,’ he began, and everything appeared to be fine. But then: ‘I’m watching– I’m watching BBC News? I’m Gareth Barlow. You’re watching BBC News.’
The video was subsequently published on X (previously Twitter) by Barlow, who was able to poke fun at himself and joke with his fans on the social networking platform.
‘Can someone please remind me who’s watching the news?’ he captioned the post, before sharing the short funny clip with his 11,700 followers.
