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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,920 posts)
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:08 PM Dec 2016

'Unpresidented' Trump tweet on China sets off deluge of mockery

US President-elect Donald Trump got plenty of attention -- but not the kind he was looking for -- after a tweet Saturday calling out China for its seizure of an unmanned US naval probe.

"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters -- rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act," the real estate magnate wrote on his favorite platform.

"Unpresidented" quickly became a top trending topic on Twitter in the United States, as online wags savaged the incoming president for the unfortunate misspelling.

"TrumpSpellCheck -- Unpresidentedly effective," tweeted "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/unpresidented-trump-tweet-on-china-sets-off-deluge-of-mockery/ar-AAlGn8g?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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'Unpresidented' Trump tweet on China sets off deluge of mockery (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
K and r. cwydro Dec 2016 #1
Trump ought to be mocked as often as possible. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #2
Mo mo in chief. Just what the US has been missing, Mc Mike Dec 2016 #3
"unfortunate misspelling??? heaven05 Dec 2016 #4
Does Stephen Hawking have a 156 IQ?? pangaia Dec 2016 #10
160 heaven05 Dec 2016 #11
Really !! Holy cow!! He's smarter than I am.. pangaia Dec 2016 #13
He needs to BE unpresidented. ismnotwasm Dec 2016 #5
Trump is the un-President. LuvLoogie Dec 2016 #6
Cannot Spell erpowers Dec 2016 #7
Dan Quayle had better spelling skills than this moron Sanity Claws Dec 2016 #8
President Trump makes a fool of himself internationally workinclasszero Dec 2016 #9
Unpresident him immediately randr Dec 2016 #12
The Semiliterate Precedent moondust Dec 2016 #14
Maybe up north or in California resistance2016 Dec 2016 #16
CNN correcting it for him right now. gulliver Dec 2016 #15

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
3. Mo mo in chief. Just what the US has been missing,
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:15 PM
Dec 2016

since the raygun and li'l bush era.

Whatta balloon head.

What an embezzle, what an ultramaroon.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
4. "unfortunate misspelling???
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:15 PM
Dec 2016

it's the knowledge and intelligence of the buffoonish, ignorant speller that is the key here. 156 IQ, my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! American republican voter, you have fucked up this time!!!!!!!!!!!

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
7. Cannot Spell
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:27 PM
Dec 2016

So, we have an incoming President who cannot spell. Does a person really go to an Ivy League university an not learn how to spell? Does a person go to an Ivy League university and not learn how to use a dictionary? This is the guy who asked/demanded to see President Obama's high school transcripts in order to see how he was able to get into an Ivy League university. I want to see both Donald Trump's high school and college transcripts in order to see how he got into an Ivy League university and to see how well, or poorly he performed at that university.

Sanity Claws

(21,846 posts)
8. Dan Quayle had better spelling skills than this moron
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:29 PM
Dec 2016

And those of around during the Daddy Bush administration know what I am talking about.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. President Trump makes a fool of himself internationally
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 02:40 PM
Dec 2016

Via Twitter.

Get used to seeing that headline in the coming years.

moondust

(19,972 posts)
14. The Semiliterate Precedent
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 03:40 PM
Dec 2016

I'm pretty sure that many, many grade schoolers can loosely define and spell "unprecedented" and also tell you that "unpresidented" is not even a word.

So did the Precedent-elect drop out of grade school or simply buy his passage through school and his college and business school degrees?

 

resistance2016

(86 posts)
16. Maybe up north or in California
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 04:49 PM
Dec 2016

Here in the south I'd truly be shocked if you could find ten adults who can define and spell "unprecedented."

gulliver

(13,180 posts)
15. CNN correcting it for him right now.
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 03:54 PM
Dec 2016

Trump corrected his tweet, and CNN goes with the corrected version on its front page. One of its mini-headlines now reads "Trump slams Beijing and calls the incident unprecedented."

Thanks, CNN. The news that our president-elect is a careless idiot just got censored. Why?

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