{"id":40848,"date":"2020-08-22T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40848"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:56:55","slug":"trump-gaffes-part-2-war-on-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/trump-gaffes-part-2-war-on-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gaffes &#8211; Part 2: War on Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Gaffes Part 2 will focus on his verbal, pronunciation and spelling slipups, and I&#8217;ll start with the low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s impossible to figure out the very first Trump gaffe, one of the earliest ones was just a couple of months into his administration \u2013 back in May of 2017.\u00a0 As always, Trump just deletes anything he deems embarrassing \u2013 so there&#8217;s only a screenshot of his famous whine about negative press <strong><em>Covfefe<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Covfefe_Tweet_Since-Deleted.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Covfefe_Tweet_Since-Deleted.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Covfefe_Tweet_Since-Deleted.png 854w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Covfefe_Tweet_Since-Deleted-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Covfefe_Tweet_Since-Deleted-150x60.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Covfefe_Tweet_Since-Deleted-768x306.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But just because Trump deletes it doesn&#8217;t mean the Twittersphere is going to let it pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Banana_Republic_Dictator_Col-Covfefe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Banana_Republic_Dictator_Col-Covfefe-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Banana_Republic_Dictator_Col-Covfefe-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Banana_Republic_Dictator_Col-Covfefe-150x144.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Banana_Republic_Dictator_Col-Covfefe-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Banana_Republic_Dictator_Col-Covfefe.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Tweets-Trouble_Words-Wisdom_Covfefe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Tweets-Trouble_Words-Wisdom_Covfefe-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Tweets-Trouble_Words-Wisdom_Covfefe-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Tweets-Trouble_Words-Wisdom_Covfefe-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Tweets-Trouble_Words-Wisdom_Covfefe-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Tweets-Trouble_Words-Wisdom_Covfefe.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the Mueller Investigation began, I don&#8217;t think Trump let a day pass without whining about something.\u00a0 One of his longer whines was when he claimed that Democrats were unable to find a <strong><em>Smocking Gun<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(No idea why, but he let this one remain.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDemocrats can\u2019t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey\u2019s testimony. No Smocking Gun&#8230;No Collusion.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a>  That\u2019s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1072095127894667265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately the Twitterverse was able to locate the <em><strong>Smocking Gun:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Smocking-Gun_Label.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Smocking-Gun_Label-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Smocking-Gun_Label-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Smocking-Gun_Label-150x80.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Smocking-Gun_Label-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Smocking-Gun_Label.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(One thing we can all agree on is that Trump has <strong><u>never<\/u><\/strong> COLLUDED with a Spell Checker.)<\/p>\n<p>After the Clemson football team was crowned national champions, Trump invited them to the White House.\u00a0 But his self-induced government shutdown (because the funding bill didn&#8217;t include money for his Wall) meant the White House kitchen staff was gone \u2013 so he had to improvise.<\/p>\n<p>But who knew that rather than standard fast food fare, he would elect to get <strong><em>Hamberders<\/em><\/strong> instead!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamberder_Tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamberder_Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamberder_Tweet.jpg 854w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamberder_Tweet-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamberder_Tweet-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamberder_Tweet-768x393.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamburgers_Clemson_2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Hamburgers_Clemson_2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burger King responded brilliantly:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">due to a large order placed yesterday, we&#39;re all out of hamberders. <br \/>just serving hamburgers today.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Burger King (@BurgerKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BurgerKing\/status\/1085213382192627717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A surprising fact I learned while putting this together is that Trump gaffes, when committed in an official capacity, are memorialized by the official White House records.<\/p>\n<p>An example is when Trump saluted parents who sacrifice for the <strong><em>FURNITURE<\/em><\/strong> of their children.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/remarks-president-trump-2017-values-voter-summit\/\">official White House transcript<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Furniture-of-Children_WH-Text.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Furniture-of-Children_WH-Text.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Furniture-of-Children_WH-Text.png 854w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Furniture-of-Children_WH-Text-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Furniture-of-Children_WH-Text-150x22.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Trump_Furniture-of-Children_WH-Text-768x111.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One that truly baffles me is that Trump has repeatedly, and on multiple occasions, claimed that the F-35 Stealth aircraft is <strong>LITERALLY INVISIBLE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump tells coast guard the &#039;invisible&#039; F-35 wins every time\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mrWUrMK5d4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I personally think he has a Wonder Woman fixation \u2013 and is thinking of her <em>&#8220;Literally Invisible&#8221;<\/em> plane:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/F-35_Stealth_Invisible_Wonder-Woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/F-35_Stealth_Invisible_Wonder-Woman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/F-35_Stealth_Invisible_Wonder-Woman.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/F-35_Stealth_Invisible_Wonder-Woman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/F-35_Stealth_Invisible_Wonder-Woman-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>One of my favorites is during a July 4<sup>th<\/sup> celebration the Teleprompter stopped working, and Trump had to wing it.\u00a0 If you had any doubt how the Revolutionary War was going to turn out, Trump reassured you that the tides changed in our favor when Gen. Washington was able to take over all the airports:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Our Army manned the air, it ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump: &quot;The Continental Army suffered a bitter winner at Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KQIGDUWDG3\">pic.twitter.com\/KQIGDUWDG3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1146985704624406533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s George commanding our &#8220;Revolutionary&#8221; Air Force:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4th_Jet_Washington_Camp.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4th_Jet_Washington_Camp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I guess George agreed with Tom Cruise even way back then that \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;I felt the need \u2026 the need for speed&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4th_Top-Gun_George_OPT.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4th_Top-Gun_George_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many more Trump gaffes, I&#8217;m going to switch to compilation videos to help out.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all known that Trump \u2013 combining his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> grade reading level and difficulty using a Teleprompter \u2013 produces disastrous pronunciations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump can&#039;t say Yosemite Trump slurryslur all the words Trump can&#039;t pronounce\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oFMfndfdzgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even when a person is standing right next to him, Trump can NOT remember anyone&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did he do with names Mr. High I.Q.?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Krxf2Dsd8a\">pic.twitter.com\/Krxf2Dsd8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BallsOut (@bjcreigh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjcreigh\/status\/1107633248417525760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll close with one from the <em>Daily Show<\/em>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re all aware that Trump <em>et al<\/em> have been trying (with no success) to convince folks that Biden&#8217;s going senile.\u00a0 With a clever job of splicing, the <em>Daily Show<\/em> was able to turn the tables and make Fox News extremely concerned about <strong><em>Trump&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> mental acuity \u2013 using his own words!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox News is very concerned that this presidential candidate&#39;s brain isn&#39;t working <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VGfUgG0tE3\">pic.twitter.com\/VGfUgG0tE3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDailyShow\/status\/1242836333871202305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve left out quite a few &#8211; but I did try to select the ones that amused me the most.\u00a0 But I think it&#8217;s time I move on to another topic next week.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you feel better armed to counter any claims mocking Biden&#8217;s mental acuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Gaffes Part 2 will focus on his verbal, pronunciation and spelling slipups, and I&#8217;ll start with the low-hanging fruit. While it&#8217;s impossible to figure out the very first Trump gaffe, one of the earliest ones was just a couple of months into his administration \u2013 back in May of 2017.\u00a0 As always, Trump just <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/trump-gaffes-part-2-war-on-error\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4079,4088,4089,4087],"class_list":["post-40848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gaffes","tag-pronunciation","tag-spelling","tag-verbal","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}