A “Fox & Friends” host called on President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE to walk back his comments calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “shithole countries” shortly before Trump did so in a tweet Friday morning.

It may be just the latest example of a link between Fox News reports and presidential tweets.

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The sequence on Thursday followed a similar pattern with Trump tweets.

During the “Fox & Friends” opening segment just before 6 a.m., host Brian Kilmeade said Trump needed to “clarify" his comments "right away, before noon, so he can move forward on substantive talks to help the country.” Kilmeade's comments were noted by Matt Gertz of Media Matters.

In the program's opening segment, around 6:05 am, Kilmeade harshly criticized the president's comments as "ham-handed" and said he needed to "clarify right away, before noon" so he can move on to getting deals done. pic.twitter.com/pz6Yr8FX0m — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 12, 2018

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Later in the show, shortly after 7 a.m., Kilmeade said that Trump “made a mistake making those comments, no question.”

“Not positive, not going to move this story forward, I think he should walk it back at some point,” Kilmeade said.

At 7:06 am, Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade said Trump "made a mistake" with the "shithole" comment and should "walk it back."



At 7:28 am, Trump Tweeted that that was "not the language used." pic.twitter.com/t1fr5RxHKJ — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 12, 2018

Around 7:30 a.m., Trump issued a tweet denying he had used the vulgar language.

The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018

There has been a lot of speculation that Trump's tweets are motivated by things that he sees on cable news — and particularly the "Fox & Friends" show in the morning. Just Thursday, Trump appeared to tweet about a surveillance vote in the House after the show presented a segment on it.

Axios reported last week that Trump is starting his workday later so he has more time to watch television and tweet in the mornings.