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WATCH: TV staffer fired after station airs video altered to make Trump look bad
Image source: KTTH-Radio YouTube video screenshot

WATCH: TV staffer fired after station airs video altered to make Trump look bad

The president appears to sluggishly lick his lips in a video that aired on a Seattle TV station

A staffer at Seattle's KCPQ-TV has been fired after the station aired a video of President Donald Trump's speech Tuesday from the Oval Office that was altered to make Trump look worse, the Seattle Times reported.

"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," KCPQ news director Erica Hill wrote Thursday in a statement to the newspaper.

The allegedly doctored video showed Trump sluggishly hanging his tongue out of his mouth and resting it on his lower lip for an unusually long time when he addressed the nation Tuesday night. The president's skin and hair also appeared orange in the station's video.

What happened?

A listener on KTTH-Radio brought the video's discrepancies to the attention of Todd Herman, a conservative talk show host in Seattle, who compared the listener's video to the raw footage.

"We performed a side-by-side comparison of the video from our listener, apparently taken by a smart phone recording of Q13, to the raw video of Trump's speech from CNN," Herman wrote on the station's website.

In the raw video, the president briefly licked his lips and continued with his address.

"That comparison revealed the Q13 video creating a loop of the President licking his lips — making it seem bizarre and unbalanced — it also seems that someone distorted the President's face and may have added an orange tone to his skin," Herman wrote.

Watch the video comparison:

What else?

The editor was placed on leave Wednesday after the station was made aware of the situation.

"This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light," Hill told the Times and KTTH in an earlier statement.

The staffer was fired following the station's prompt investigation.

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