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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu May 3, 2018, 08:26 PM May 2018

Trump Deletes Nine Tweets While Attempting to Spell "Subpoena"

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump deleted nine tweets early Wednesday morning in a failed attempt to spell the word “subpoena,” a White House source confirmed.

According to the source, Trump spent more than an hour angrily trying to spell the legal term before giving up in disgust. “I’ve never seen him so enraged,” the source said. “He hates the word ‘subpoena’ more than the E.P.A. hates the words ‘climate’ and ‘change.’ ”

Having been flummoxed in the past while trying to spell such words as “heel” and “tap,” Trump now believes that the word “subpoena” is “out to get him,” the source said.

Speaking to reporters later in the morning, Trump called the word “subpoena” “disgraceful” and said that it had treated him “very unfairly,” but stopped short of threatening to fire it from the dictionary.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-deletes-nine-tweets-while-attempting-to-spell-subpoena

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Trump Deletes Nine Tweets While Attempting to Spell "Subpoena" (Original Post) Zorro May 2018 OP
LOL SunSeeker May 2018 #1
OMG. The sad thing is, I did not realize this was satire Maven May 2018 #2
What a genius. Blue Owl May 2018 #3
One of the attempts was "subpenis" Blue Owl May 2018 #4
His phone kept autocorrecting to it underpants May 2018 #5
Animaniacs ThoughtCriminal May 2018 #6
Nine times? There's only eight letters in the word! Perfect word for a guy who has to sound it out. marble falls May 2018 #7
A very stable genius. Nitram May 2018 #8
Goddess, I LOVE Borowitz! n/t raven mad May 2018 #9

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
6. Animaniacs
Thu May 3, 2018, 08:58 PM
May 2018

Judge: Have you subpoenaed the witness?
Yakko: Have I what?
Judge: Subpoenaed! Subpoenaed! Have you subpoenaed the witness?!
Yakko: I most certainly have not! You should be ashamed of yourself for even suggesting it!

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