'Covfefe' and 17 More Times Donald Trump Failed at Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation
05/31/17
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'Covfefe' and 17 More Times Donald Trump Failed at Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation
Donald Trump's tweet from Tuesday night, a sentence fragment using the nonsense word "covfefe" — we think he meant "coverage" — has led to renewed laughter at his errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation; the internet has gone wild lampooning the bizarre tweet. Now, we know it's easy to make a typo in a tweet, and not everyone knows all the rules of grammar and punctuation, but is it too much to ask that the leader of the free world be a little less sloppy? The Advocate has documented Trump's "unpresidented" Twitter errors in detail. On the following pages you'll find our second list of them, and you can access our first installment here. Trump has deleted some of the error-filled tweets and replaced them with corrected ones — like when he spelled "hereby" wrong twice, as "hear by" and "hearby." But a lot of his errors still live on the internet.
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Trudy Ring
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.