CNN’s Erin Burnett Drops Trump Story F-Bomb On Air, Has Ron Burgundy Moment

CNN anchor Erin Burnett had to apologize to viewers on Tuesday night (October 22) after reading a quote live on air and forgetting to censor herself when it came to a curse word.

The Ron Burgundy-style blooper happened on Tuesday’s episode of OutFront, where Burnett and her guests discussed a new article from The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg. In the piece, Goldberg claims former president Donald Trump referred to deceased soldier Vanessa Guillén as “a f****** Mexican” after complaining about picking up her funeral costs.

“According to Goldberg, Trump asked, ‘Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?'” Burnett said, reading aloud the quote from the article, which also appeared on screen. “According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: ‘Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.’ Trump became angry. ‘It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican!'”

After dropping the F-bomb uncensored, Burnett said, “Excuse my language there… I just read it. But that’s what he said, so…”

Erin Burnett dropped an F bomb on CNN while reading a censored tweet @CNN @ErinBurnett

— James (@James____Clarke) October 22, 2024

erin burnett just dropped the F bomb on CNN

— jason maxsteel (@kev9107) October 22, 2024

Am I a bad person for thinking Erin Burnett’s F bomb on CNN was funny and that it made my night?

— Scott Ramnarine (@ScottRamnarine) October 22, 2024

You can see Erin’s uncensored moment here, together with her apology.

Burnett’s uncensored gaffe brought to mind Will Ferrell‘s character, Ron Burgundy, in Anchorman. As Fred Willard‘s character says in the movie, “For the last time, anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read!”

However, Burnett wasn’t the only one to drop the F-bomb on CNN on Tuesday. The View co-host Ana Navarro spoke on air with Anderson Cooper, where she said, “If you don’t believe that Donald Trump is capable of saying ‘$60,000, does it cost that much to bury a f***ing Mexican?’ then you haven’t been listening to Donald Trump.”

As with Burnett, Navarro did not censor herself and said the F-word in full.

Ana Navarro not holding back and dropping f-bombs on CNN.

“You haven’t been listening to the way [Donald Trump] talked about Judge Curiel, as ‘just a Mexican.’ You haven’t been listening to the way he talked about Mexicans as criminals as rapists. You have forgotten when he said… pic.twitter.com/I1CUQQ1RJa

— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) October 23, 2024

Burnett noted that a Trump spokesperson has denied Goldberg’s reporting. Meanwhile, Goldberg claims his sources said Trump made the comments weeks after the 2020 election during a meeting in the Oval Office.

Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, took to X on Tuesday, where he claimed to be in the room during that meeting and said that Trump had never made those comments.

I was in the discussions featured in the Atlantic’s latest hit piece against President Trump. Let me say this.

Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false.

He was nothing but kind, gracious, and…

— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) October 22, 2024

“Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false,” Meadows wrote. “He was nothing but kind, gracious, and wanted to make sure that the military and the U.S. government did right by Vanessa Guillen and her family.”