Twitter seizes on a Trump tweet typo to demand Donald Trump be 'unpresidented'

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last updated 19 December 2016

President-elect Donald Trump sent one of his trademark early morning tweets Saturday and apparently didn't heed his phone's autocorrect, with disastrous results. Trump was criticizing China's seizure of an American oceanographic drone this week, and he wanted to call the situation "unprecedented."

Instead he called it "unpresidented" — and Twitter promptly caught the spelling error Trump missed. Though Trump soon deleted the tweet and replaced it with a corrected post, he'd already launched an #unpresidented tag of tweets making the all-too-obvious joke. See a few of many below, including a screenshot of the original tweet. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.