President Trump’s lack of basic competence surrounding the English language has become the subject of its own subgenre on Twitter. Between fractured syntax, errant capitalization, and gross misspellings, Trump’s mangling of his own native — and only — language has launched countless mocking (or, as the president might say, smocking) tweets that ridiculed him for his failure to match the grammatical skills of a fifth grader.
Trump’s latest batch of misspelled tweets ranks with the infamous “covfefe” coinage as among his most derided instances of lexicographical disasters.
“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
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….which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s – but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
Neal Katyal, former acting Solicitor General during the Obama administration, taunted the president with a tweet that parodied Trump’s signature illiteracy in almost perfect form.
Eternal question: Why does @Starbucks serve cofefe that is always so smocking hot? A special council should look into that.
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) December 11, 2018
George Conway, a Republican lawyer and the spouse of Trump’s longest-lasting White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and a frequent critic of the president, saw Katyal’s tweet and pointed out a small error in the former Solicitor General’s imitation of Trump’s misspellings.
You mis-misspelled “council.” The correct misspelling is “councel.”
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 11, 2018
Remember when America elected leaders who were recruited from the ranks of the country’s best and brightest? It all seems so long ago now, even though it’s only been two years.
Let us hope that it won’t be too much longer that we’ll have to endure the illiterate spewing of a “f*cking moron,” as the president’s own former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson referred to him. At the very least, someone needs to teach Trump how to use spell check.
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Original reporting by Morgan Gstalter at The Hill.
