‘Wrong Theresa May’ awaits Donald Trump apology after tweets

The woman Donald Trump mistakenly tagged in a tweet while attempting to berate UK Prime Minister Theresa May on social media has spoken for the first time about the bizarre incident, insisting the US President should apologise.

After the Prime Minister criticised Trump for retweeting controversial anti-Muslim videos from far-right hate group Britain First on Wednesday, calling it “wrong”, the President hit back with a strongly worded response, saying “@Theresa_May, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!”

Keen-eyed Twitter users had noted, however, that this was the second posting of the tweet, after the original - which was quickly deleted - had tagged the user @TheresaMay, rather than the PM’s official account @Theresa_May.

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@TheresaMay is the handle of Theresa Scrivener, a 41-year-old woman who lives in Bognor and has six Twitter followers.

“I’m just waiting for a call from the White House with an apology,” Theresa Scrivener, whose middle name is May, told the BBC.

“I was in bed by half 10 last night and oblivious to it all. It has been very surreal. I haven’t been able to leave my house. I’ve been bombarded and been contacted by press from around the world. If I wanted to be famous I would have gone on X Factor.”

“I’m just glad he was not contacting me to say he was going to war with North Korea.”

Scrivener added “It’s amazing to think that the world’s most powerful man managed to press the wrong button.”

Many Twitter users shared the same sentiment:

This is not the first time Trump has erroneously tagged someone on Twitter. In January this year, he inadvertently tagged Ivanka Majic, a digital consultant living in Brighton, in a tweet inteded for his daughter Ivanka Trump.

Majic’s username is @Ivanka, while Ivanka Trump’s is @IvankaTrump.