President Trump tweeted his condolences to the family of the U.S. serviceman slain in Somalia, only he misspelled the country.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of our serviceman who was killed and his fellow servicemen who were wounded in Somolia. They are truly all HEROES.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2018
Trump’s typo elicited a number of expletive-laced responses from the verified crowd on Twitter.
Somalia. There is no SOMOLIA. Draft-dodging ass. https://t.co/uujNhrnX2h
— (((Christine Fair))) (@CChristineFair) June 9, 2018
30+ minutes later, this tweet is still up with Somalia misspelled. So is this one of the aide-written tweets that uses typos to appeal to middle America? pic.twitter.com/UbcXZCpbKB
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 9, 2018
I think you mean SOMOLIA. https://t.co/0UJJuSEPB3
— (((Christine Fair))) (@CChristineFair) June 9, 2018
Somolia? I’m going to need to check exactly what country is on that travel ban sir https://t.co/7BKK3GxpcV
— ikran (@ikran) June 9, 2018
Also those who died in Somalia https://t.co/9z8HqdpiZa
— ديڤيد ووقان ? David Wogan (@davidwogan) June 9, 2018
National-Embarrassment-In-Chief strikes again. Somolia? https://t.co/RcmADChoNj
— Cliston Brown (@ClistonBrown) June 9, 2018
*Somalia – US serviceman was killed in *Somalia https://t.co/wDltWZIM3V
— Kimberley Leonard (@KimberleyeLeo) June 9, 2018
Trump reaction to the killing of a US soldier, misspells Somalia. https://t.co/Wj1UUJlCgo
— Harun Maruf (@HarunMaruf) June 9, 2018
Of all the misspellings I’ve seen of Somalia Trump really went the extra mile. I’m going to have to add Somolia to my google alerts now
— ikran (@ikran) June 9, 2018
Somolia, next to Mangolia https://t.co/Mo6jvYR76b
— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) June 9, 2018
Dear Very Stable Genius: It’s Somalia. Not Somolia.
Good luck in Singapore. You’re gonna need it. #WhatATool https://t.co/BnC42jjsTx
— Laurie Brookins (@StyleWriterNYC) June 9, 2018
Is Somolia an ally of Nambia?
— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) June 9, 2018
Is Somolia appearing at the World Cup?#askingforafriend
— Howler Magazine (@whatahowler) June 9, 2018
Right near Covfefe, Somolia’s capital. https://t.co/CHHZS72EyK
— León Krauze (@LeonKrauze) June 9, 2018
“Somolia.” Not a typo. A careless error.
Despite Trump’s condolence message, it’s impossible to read “Somolia” and not see America’s broader struggle to lead encapsulated by Trump’s relatively minor struggle to spell Somalia right: pic.twitter.com/zSJaduF8k9
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 9, 2018
Somalia, you fucking imbecile. https://t.co/JrylyekKz7
— Ned Pyle (@NerdPyle) June 9, 2018
“Somolia”. You fucking idiot. https://t.co/rJ8wGwIWE0
— Harley Peyton (@HarleyPeyton) June 9, 2018
Somolia? Is it near Nambia? ?♀️ pic.twitter.com/oi8kFBNCNK
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) June 9, 2018
“Somolia,” just chilling there for an hour, feet up on the couch, waiting for people to be like SOMALIA so it can be like SO WHO CARES pic.twitter.com/AgnIi0PVda
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 9, 2018
Somalia not Somolia. Why does a stable genius who brags about being smarter than everyone have such a hard time spelling simple words while literally holding an electronic dictionary that underlines misspelled words in bright red?
— Curt Petrovich (@RetroCanada) June 9, 2018
Nobody needs to die from Somolia anymore. We have treatments for digestive diseases like that.
— Wes Miller (@getwired) June 9, 2018
Some of my best friends are from SOMOLIA. https://t.co/jOS5Ue1tlu
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 9, 2018
It’s spelled Somalia. ??♀️ https://t.co/14gUJXWpQP
— Tory Shulman (@toryshulman) June 9, 2018
“Somalia”. https://t.co/r3WXf4Dwar
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) June 9, 2018
The Department of Defense announced Friday that a U.S. special operator was killed and four other servicemen were injured in an enemy attack in the Jubaland region of Somalia.
The attackers were allegedly fighters from the Al Shabaab terrorist group, yet DOD did not confirm that in the Friday release.
