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Published 16:18 12 Mar 2020 GMT
Moments before giving a speech to the nation regarding the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump cried "Oh f**k! I got a pen mark!"
The incident took place when the president was unknowingly being recorded for a hot mic broadcast live on politics channel C-Span.
Listen to the president's profanity below:
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Trump said: "Oh f**k! Uh-oh, I got a pen mark. Anybody have any white stuff?"
In the background, a presidential aid can be heard telling Trump that he's unsure whether the correction fluid would remove the mark effectively.
"Where is it?" Trump continued. "Do you see it? Which side is it on here?"
This man was filmed wiping his saliva on a subway train during the coronavirus outbreak:
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After the incident, the president was asked to count to ten while the mics were being checked. Moments before going live on air, he then asks: "Let me see how the look is."
The speech addressed the new travel restrictions from Europe that the US is introducing amid the coronavirus outbreak. While it does not apply to the UK or Ireland, any American citizens returning during this period will have to undergo screening.
Explaining the new restrictions, Trump said: "The European Union failed to take the same precautions (as the US) and restrict travel from China and other hotspots.
"As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.
"After consulting with our top government health officials I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health of all Americans.
"To stop new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from Europe to our shores for 30 days."
These are the CDC recommended steps that you should take if you think you have coronavirus.
In a report from the World Health Organization yesterday, they declared that the COVID-19 outbreak is now being officially recognized as a pandemic:
"WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction.
"We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.
"Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death."
As of yesterday's report, there have now been more than 118,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives.
