For a man known for his frequent misspellings in his bombastic tweets, what could be better than an official inauguration photo of Donald Trump featuring a quote from him with a ... misspelling.
âNo challenge is to greatâ gushes the caption under Trumpâs photo â except for the challenge, apparently, of spelling words correctly.
The entire quote reads: âNo dream is too big,â (got it right there), âno challenge is to [sic] great. Nothing we want for the future is beyond our reach.â Signed: âPresident Donald J. Trump.â
The photo with caption was for sale by the Library of Congress shop for $16.95, with a sales plug that it âcaptures the essence of Donald Trumpâs campaign for the presidency of the United States.â For sure.
The photograph quickly sold out once the embarrassing glitch was spottedâ and it was yanked off the website Sunday by the, ahem, library.
Itâs not clear who was responsible for the mistake, and who missed it in proofreading. But Trump has certainly set a tone in his administration as the misspeller in chief. His tweets have been riddled with mistakes, including words like âpayed,â big âshoker,â âlooseâ instead of lose, âbig honer,â and âleightweight chokerâ (referring to Marco Rubio). Possibly everyoneâs favorite concerned Chinaâs âunpresidentedâ seizure in December of a U.S. Navy drone. (It has since been erased from Trumpâs site.)
And thatâs just the beginning of a parade of mistakes from within the administration that is possibly the best argument for funds not to be cut from the Department of Education â though the authors were probably all products of private schools.
When the administration last week printed its list of terror attacks that allegedly havenât been reported by the media, the word âattackerâ was repeatedly misspelled as âattaker.â
Then on Sunday, none other than the Department of Education tweeted about civil rights activist âW.E.B. DeBois,â which the rest of us know is actually W.E.B. Du Bois. The department offered deepest apologies â except it also misspelled that as âour deepest apologizes.â
The Republican Party tried to get in on the action by making up a quote from Abraham Lincoln to celebrate what would have been his 208th birthday Sundayâ âAnd in the end, itâs not the years in your life that count. Itâs the life in your yearsâ â but we have our hands full keeping up with the misspellings.