Trump’s Latest Spelling Gaffe, ‘Unpresidented,’ Perfectly Describes What Should Happen To Him

President-Elect Attacks China For Diplomatic Crisis He Caused

 

President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter early Saturday (above) to respond to China’s seizure of a U.S. Navy drone in the South China Sea on Thursday. 

In doing so, Trump made an embarrassing gaffe — misspelling “unprecedented” as “unpresidented.” (The tweet was deleted and replaced with a corrected version about an hour later.)

But the egregious spelling error wasn’t even the worst part about Trump’s tweet, which also served to further escalate a diplomatic crisis that he himself caused. 

Trump recently broke decades of diplomatic protocol by taking a phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. China views Taiwan as a breakaway province, and under the “One China” policy, no U.S. president or president-elect has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979. 

Experts say China’s seizure of the drone likely was in response to Trump’s call.

“Knowing Chinese military officials for many years and how orders are communicated from the highest power centers in Beijing down to commanders on the ground or water, this was very likely a highly planned and escalatory move to show China will not take matters lightly when it comes to President-elect Trump’s phone call and comments on Taiwan, or Chinese actions overall,” Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told The Hill. 

Reactions to Trump’s tweet below.