Fox News personality Sean Hannity was roasted by social media users after flubbing the name of President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law with what sounded to many like an "s-bomb."
Lara Trump, the former RNC co-chair who will soon host her own show on Fox News, was being introduced after Hannity wrapped up an interview with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Trump's new show, My View with Lara Trump, will premiere soon but Hannity didn't quite get her name right.
He said:
"Joining us now, the host of the upcoming show, My View with Lara S**t—Trump. And by the way, take that one to the bank. It'll be a hit show."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Where did that even come from? The mockery was swift.
My View with Lara Trump, which will debut this Saturday, marks the first instance of a close relative of a U.S. president being given such a high-profile TV role while the politician remains in office.
Fox has said the show will focus on the "return of common sense to all corners of American life as the country ushers in a new era of practicality." The network said it will be a strictly opinion-based program that "will feature big picture analysis and interviews with thought leaders, shedding light on the headlines driving the national conversation and affecting families around the country."
In a piece for MSNBC, Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, said "the deal is almost comically corrupt," noting that "no one should have any illusions that Fox has hired Lara Trump to produce anything other than crude propaganda for her father-in-law and his administration."
Gertz also noted that the revelation of Fox transferring money "into the president’s family member’s bank account" came just two days after President Donald Trump met with network owner Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office and openly criticized The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.