“Fox & Mates” apologized Sunday for airing footage of Donald Trump from December 2025 that the present introduced as if it have been from this week’s dignified switch of six service members killed in Kuwait.
Photographs from March 7 present Trump sporting a white hat with “USA” on it; within the footage that aired on Fox, the president was proven and not using a hat. The footage of a hatless Trump was from December 2025, when he attended a Dover Air Power Base dignified switch for 2 members of the Iowa Nationwide Guard and an interpreter who died in Syria.
“Earlier than we transfer on we need to acknowledge a mistake made earlier on our program throughout our protection of yesterdays dignified switch,” the community defined. “We inadvertently aired video from an older dignified switch as an alternative of the ceremony that befell yesterday. We deeply remorse the error and lengthen our respective condolences to the service members households. We honor the sacrifice of these six American heroes.”
Fox didn’t instantly reply Sunday to TheWrap’s request for remark.
The error sparked a response from journalist Mehdi Hasan, who wrote on X, “If another community did this it might be an enormous scandal, Fox would lead the refrain of criticisms and faux-outrage, and other people would lose their jobs. However not at Fox. It’s not a information community. It’s a state propaganda channel.”
Saturday’s switch was the primary return residence of the our bodies of soliders killed for the reason that Trump administration launched a army operation in opposition to Iran.
“Very unhappy scenario, to greet the households of the heroes coming residence from Iran, coming residence in a unique method than they thought they’d be coming residence. However they’re nice heroes in our nation, and we’re going to maintain it that manner,” Trump informed world leaders on the “Protect of the Americas” summit the identical day.
