# Trump's battles with the English language **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 26, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565 "2019-05-26T18:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/1 "2019-05-26T18:52:44Z")
The stable genius at work. In his latest, he misspelled the former Vice President’s name as Joe **Bidan**. He has served fast food **hamberders** up to Clemson football players. Who the heck knows what \*\*covfefe \*\*is? Wanted to know the **oranges** of the Trump-Russia investigation. He noted the Democrats had no **achomplisments**. Created a new nation, **Nambia**. Congratulated the Red **Socks**. Said president Obama was low to **tapp** his phones. Repeatedly called the British Prime Minister, **Teresa** instead of Theresa May. He was “ **honered** to serve you, the great American people . . .” Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure there must be others. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/2 "2019-05-26T19:38:34Z")
Well, there was the time he referred to one of his Congressional nemeses as “Adam Schitt”, but I I’m pretty sure that one was intentional. I imagine that you or I might consider Trump’s poor spelling and apparent refusal to have someone proofread his texts, before sending them out to a grateful nation, as something that bespeaks colossal arrogance at best, and increasing cognitive issues at worst. I suspect that for his base, however, this is one of his more endearing traits. Hey, he spells just like they do! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/3 "2019-05-27T00:17:01Z")
Some more quotes from Trump Tweets: It was my great honor to deliver a message at the Marine **Core** Air Station Miramar to our GREAT U.S. Military Democrats can’t find a **Smocking** Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No **Smocking** Gun…No Collusion.” So with Obama **seperation** is fine, but with Trump it’s not. Heading to **Phoneix**. Will be arriving soon. The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House **Councel** Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special **Councel** , he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” Looks to me like the Bernie people will fight. If not, **there** blood, sweat and tears was a total **waist** of time. Ted Cruz is totally unelectable, if he even gets to run (born in Canada). Will **loose** big to Hillary. **Amoung** many other things we will build the wall. How low has President Obama gone to **tapp** my phones during the very sacred election process. If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House **waite** so long to act? China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in **unpresidented** act. Great to have our incredible First Lady back home in the White House. **Melanie** is feeling and doing very well. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/4 "2019-05-27T00:20:43Z")
Give him a break, he corrected the notoriously misspelled Red Sox. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/5 "2019-05-27T00:22:16Z")
As much as I despise the man, I have to give him a pass on Melania/Melanie. I’m pretty sure that was autocorrect. He may be an idiot for not double-checking it, but I don’t think it’s too egregious. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/6 "2019-05-27T00:36:58Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > As much as I despise the man, I have to give him a pass on Melania/Melanie. I’m pretty sure that was autocorrect. He may be an idiot for not double-checking it, but I don’t think it’s too egregious. Nope. It’s his phone, right? That means he’s had plenty of time to enter his wife’s name correctly. He’s an idiot in the first place. That’s why he continues to misspell even his own wife’s name. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/7 "2019-05-27T00:39:01Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > As much as I despise the man, I have to give him a pass on Melania/Melanie. I’m pretty sure that was autocorrect. He may be an idiot for not double-checking it, but I don’t think it’s too egregious. Superdude - Dude you DO NOT misspell your wife’s name. Yes it was a spell check of course, but most simpletons should know to watch out for that, or add it to the systems dictionary. Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t call her Mrs. Tump. A little kidding SD, not picking on you. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/8 "2019-05-27T01:33:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Well, there was the time he referred to one of his Congressional nemeses as “Adam Schitt”, but I I’m pretty sure that one was intentional. > > I imagine that you or I might consider Trump’s poor spelling and apparent refusal to have someone proofread his texts, before sending them out to a grateful nation, as something that bespeaks colossal arrogance at best, and increasing cognitive issues at worst. I suspect that for his base, however, this is one of his more endearing traits. Hey, he spells just like they do! As one Facebook wit put it: If Trump gets any more incoherent, the right wing evangelicals will claim he is speaking in tongues. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/9 "2019-05-27T05:32:06Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t call her Mrs. Tump. No way. Trump is the one word he would never misspell. I’m sure he thinks it’s the most important word in the [del]English[/del] American language. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/10 "2019-05-27T05:38:30Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > As much as I despise the man, I have to give him a pass on Melania/Melanie. I’m pretty sure that was autocorrect. He may be an idiot for not double-checking it, but I don’t think it’s too egregious. I’ve heard the auto-correct excuse. But auto-correct will give you real words that aren’t the correct ones; it won’t put words like achomplishment or amoung or hamberder or tapp or waite in your messages. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/11 "2019-05-27T05:40:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Democrats can’t find a **Smocking** Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No **Smocking** Gun…No Collusion.” I now have a mental image of a handgun wearing a kindergartner’s smock; it looks as if it was drawn by EG Keller, the person who illustrated A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/12 "2019-05-27T06:18:19Z")
I’m pretty sure Trump has the auto-correct turned off on his phone. Probably because he doesn’t like his phone telling him what to do. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/13 "2019-05-27T06:20:56Z")
I despise this hideous creature, and his tweets like an 8-year-old brat are a constant reminder of how much the sane world is laughing at the U.S.A. now. But I think Trump should be attacked on matters of substabce, not spelling. My posts would look like his if I didn’t proofread — and it’s hard to edit on a small phone. What is significant, I think, and shows the utter incompetence of this White House, is that garbage by Trump or Giuliani sits uncorrected on Twitter for a half-hour or more before being fixed. He’s surrounded by suckophants who supposedly love him; can’t one of his diaper-changers spare a minute now and then to fix his tweets? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/14 "2019-05-27T06:32:15Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > He’s surrounded by suckophants who supposedly love him; can’t one of his diaper-changers spare a minute now and then to fix his tweets? They need to wait until they’re sure he’s sufficiently distracted and not looking at his phone. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/15 "2019-05-27T11:07:12Z")
All this ribbing is easy to do if you’re just an anomynous … an anomynous…just an unknown poster on the internet. [Shame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8r_z5yukE)! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/16 "2019-05-27T11:27:53Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Created a new nation, **Nambia**. Buton too! Amazing man, two new nations in his first term ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/17 "2019-05-27T11:48:37Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Buton too! Amazing man, two new nations in his first term I’ll bet they’re shitholes. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/18 "2019-05-27T12:41:24Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > The stable genius at work. I’ll get him a pitchfork, the stalls need mucking. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/19 "2019-05-27T19:14:04Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I despise this hideous creature, and his tweets like an 8-year-old brat are a constant reminder of how much the sane world is laughing at the U.S.A. now. But I think Trump should be attacked on matters of substabce, not spelling. > > My posts would look like his if I didn’t proofread — and it’s hard to edit on a small phone. But with those tiny hands of his, that phone is YUGE by comparison… ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565/20 "2019-05-27T19:23:20Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I despise this hideous creature, and his tweets like an 8-year-old brat are a constant reminder of how much the sane world is laughing at the U.S.A. now. But I think Trump should be attacked on matters of substabce, not spelling. > > My posts would look like his if I didn’t proofread — and it’s hard to edit on a small phone. Or maybe he could just shutthefuckup on twitter (and everywhere else. I can dream) and stop being an embarrassment (at least in that sphere). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-battles-with-the-english-language/834565.md?page=2)