On and RECORDING are two completely different things.
But then there is the lefts excuse for Frankens act being a “Prank” and Trump giving the same. Yet Frankens is to be accepted, and Trumps not?
Such inconsistency
You don''t point a camera at a subject without the intention to record them. That's the whole point of what a camera does.
Bush and Rump knew they were both "on" and "recording". You record all the raw material you can and then edit together what you want to use. Obviously the Tic Tac Terminology wasn't going to make the show, but it did get recorded, and both of them cannot not have known it was being recorded while they were doing it.
In fact given Rump's past history of insinuating himself into incest, pedophilia and the whole "John Miller"/"John Baron" hysterical fables, it's hard to imagine that Rump wasn't deliberately playing TO the cameras with the whole direction the dialogue took. In other words it's doubtful he would have gone into all that had there not been cameras rolling.