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Pro-Trump Fox News guest Brian Claypool just made the most amazing Freudian slip live on air. When discussing Trump's Indictment, he literally calls Donald Trump "President Fraud."

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This is true but misleading. Brian Claypool did call President Trump "President Fraud", however, it was unintentional and he corrected himself right after. 

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1642951158531538946?s=20

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by Apprentice (1.7k points)
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by Journeyman (2.9k points)

Your statement can't be true or false, because you are not asking a question and are adding your opinion to it. 

If you would have asked, "was trump called "president fraud" on Fox News", then we could have replied it was True. But since you said, "Brian Claypool just made the most amazing Freudian slip live on air", you made it an opinionated statement. Stephan Colbert said towards the end of him talking about the clip, "I believe that's a Freudian slip", but once again that's his opinion on Brian Claypool's words. A Freudian slip is "a slip of the tongue that is motivated by and reveals some unconscious aspect of the mind." Someone could have easily said this was Echolalia if the reporter used the word fraud at all before Claypool spoke, because that's the repetition or echoing of words or sounds that you hear someone else say. This can be caused by brain damage due to a stroke or psychiatric disorders like Tourette's, but we can't simply conclude that from someone messing up a word. 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Freudian%20slip

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/what-is-echolalia#:~:text=%E2%80%8CEcholalia%20is%20the%20repetition%20or%20echoing%20of%20words,a%20stroke%20or%20psychiatric%20disorders%20like%20Tourette%E2%80%99s%20syndrome

It could also be caused by stress or anxiety which commonly makes people mix up their words. We can't conclude any of these though, because we can't prove any of them except if it was due to medical issues that caused him to misspeak. For more information on symptoms of stress and anxiety look at the below link. 

https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-disorders/symptoms/mixing-up-words-anxiety/#:~:text=When%20stress%20responses%20are%20active,be%20a%20need%20for%20concern

As stated above this is an opinion and can't be true or false. It's also a statement, with no actual question.

Can't be true or false (Opinion, poem, etc.)

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