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Wednesday, 2 May 2018

The White House can't even spell any more

Oh, for the era when we though Dubya was a buffoon... those were simpler times.

Less than a month after taking office, the White House misspelled the name of British Prime Minister Theresa May three times in a press release announcing her visit. Her first name was spelled repeatedly with no "h" which, the Independent noted, is the name of a pornographic actress who starred in films including "Whitehouse: The Sex Video" and "Leather Lust". Mr Drumpf later made a similar mistake in a tweet, when he tagged a Sussex woman (whose Twitter account had only six followers) with a similar name to the politician.

In May 2017, as Mr Drumpf prepared to travel to Israel, the White House released a list of his goals, including to "promote the possibility of lasting peach" in the Middle East.

Even as Mr Drumpf prepared to be sworn into office in January 2017, his inauguration posters declared that "no challenge is to great". Before his first official State of the Union speech, invitations went out calling it the "state of the uniom", but many noted that Congress was actually responsible for that error.

In a White House list of global terror attacks, the nation of Denmark was misspelled as "Denmakr" along with the word "attaker" to describe the assailants. In at least two official schedules, the president's plane is referred to as "Air Force Once".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43957756

1 comment:

  1. Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled potato? Back then such a thing challenged what we could imagine to be possible. We were so naive.

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