Seattle TV station FIRES editor after video emerges showing orange-toned Trump with his tongue hanging out while delivering Oval Office address
- An editor at a Seattle station was fired after airing video footage of Trump
- Footage showed a more orange-toned Trump with his tongue hanging out during an Oval Office address on immigration
- The video’s filtered colors look more saturated and the mouth appears doctored
- Q13 news director Erica Hill said the incident was reviewed and the editor fired
- In his televised address, Trump urged for border wall funding amid the federal government shutdown
- Trump argued the wall was needed to resolve a security and humanitarian ‘crisis’
A Seattle TV station has fired an editor after airing video footage of President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address on immigration that appears to be altered.
FOX affiliate Q13 broadcast video from the Tuesday night speech that showed a more orange-toned Trump with his tongue hanging out languidly from his mouth after making a statement.
The video’s filtered colors look more saturated and the tongue appears to be doctored. Mynorthwest.com posted side-by-side videos showing the discrepancies of the video, which was since scrapped from Q13.
Q13 news director Erica Hill said in a statement: ‘This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light.’
Seattle TV station Q13 News fired an editor after airing this video footage of President Trump’s Oval Office address on immigration. Trump’s skin tone appears altered and his tongue is seen hanging from his mouth in the right image
The video’s filtered colors look more saturated and the mouth appears to be doctored
The editor was terminated after the video emerged
Hill also confirmed on Thursday that the station investigated the incident and fired the editor involved.
She added: ‘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.’
The identity of the editor was not immediately released.
In his televised address, Trump urged for border wall funding amid the federal government shutdown that has lasted nearly three weeks.
Q13 news director Erica Hill (above) said: ‘This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light’
He urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised wall in the somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric, but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of the government shuttered for 18 days.
Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued the wall was needed to resolve a security and humanitarian ‘crisis’.
He blamed illegal immigration for what he said was a scourge of drugs and violence in the U.S.
Democrats, in response, accused Trump appealing to ‘fear, not facts’ and manufacturing a border crisis for political gain.
Trump speaks during an address on border security in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C on Tuesday