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20th May 2018

President Trump wishes his wife well after hospital visit but manages to spell her name wrong

Rory Cashin

This is the Covfefe of getting your own wife’s name wrong.

These things happen.

You send a text. You misspell something. It happens!

However, when you’re the President of the United States, every little thing is scrutinized, and to be fair, not only should you not be in such a rush to tweet stuff that mistakes happen so often that people just kind of become numb to them, but surely you’ve written your own wife’s name often enough that your phone will just autocorrect to that anyway?

Apparently not.

https://twitter.com/Redpainter1/status/997927856473821184

And it was all going so well recently!

Remember when he practically fixed the North Korean crisis? Or how he got all those hostages back home? And how there was actual support behind his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize?

We are a fickle bunch, truly.

He did, eventually, after four minutes rewrite a new tweet, but by then the damage was done.

https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/997933113303908352

Clearly love is blind, and also maybe a little bit dyslexic. Or at the very least, love should turn the predictive text off.

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