 This comes as Trump pleads not guilty to charges of election interference in Georgia. The former president is one of 19 co-defendants indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Vaidyanathan quickly recovered from the mishap, but it didn't go unnoticed by viewers. 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. BBC viewers have been no strangers to watching slip-ups aired in previous weeks, with unlucky host Gareth Barlow recovering from an epic blunder recently. Barlow, 32, has been a senior reporter for four years, but even the best in the business can't always escape from the inevitable nerves of live TV work. When introducing the nightly bulletin on Sunday evening, he got his words a little mixed-up and gave viewers a memorable introduction to the show. He wasn't supposed to say that… (Picture: BBC) 'Hello,' he began, and everything ap){kind=link}
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BBC News viewers were left howling at an awkward blunder over Donald Trump.
Presenter Rajini Vaidyanathan had been discussing US Senators when she made the slip-up, and accidentally called the former US president ‘Tramp’.
Hosting BBC World News, she had begun: ‘Now there are health concerns about the top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.