Typos commonplace in Trump’s White House

Small mistakes have become symbolic of the larger problems with Trump’s management style, critics say

President Donald Trump boasted during the campaign that he has the “best words”. If the past 14 months in the White House are an indication, he and his team also have the worst spelling.

Among the many casualties of Washington’s protocols in the Trump era has been a lack of rigour to the accuracy of the printed word — whether it’s the president’s typo-filled tweets or the White House’s errorprone news releases.

“Special Council is told to find crimes, wether crimes exist or not,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning to start off a posting in which he misspelled “counsel” three times and had five errors in the span of 280 characters.

As journalists and others poked fun at the mistakes, the president quickly deleted the tweet and posted an edited version. He successfully changed “wether” to “whether” and eliminated an inadvertent repeat of the word “the” — but he failed to correct the three inaccurate references to the title of his nemesis, Robert Mueller.

“If Trump directs Rosenstein to fire the special ‘council,’ I think we might be OK folks,” cracked former US attorney Preet Bharara of New York, whom Trump fired last summer, referring to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

‘No challenge is to great’

Amid all the chaos in the White House — including West Wing personnel drama, the Stormy Daniels scandal and Mueller’s Russia investigation, some wayward spellings and inaccurate honorifics might seem minor. But the constant small mistakes — which have dogged the Trump White House since the president’s official Inauguration Day poster boasted that “no challenge is to great” — have become, critics say, symbolic of the larger problems with Trump’s management style, in particular his lack of attention to detail and the carelessness with which he makes policy decisions.

On Monday, for example, the White House rolled out an executive order from Trump aimed at cutting off US investment in Venezuela’s digital currency as a way to pinch strongman Nicols Maduro’s regime. But in the headline on the public news release, the White House wrote that Trump was taking action to “address the situation in America.”

“Freudian slip ???? ” Rosiland Jordan, for Al Jazeera.

“It echoes a political quote I tell people a lot from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson: The institution wondered a reporter is lengthened by the shadow of one man,” said Rick Wilson, a Republican political consultant who has been highly critical of Trump. “The sloppiness and the looseness and the chaos and lack of rigour across all areas of Trump world reflects Trump. They do not care. They don’t give a damn. But everybody needs an editor.”

In Trump’s world, Air Force One became “Air Force Once” on the president’s public schedule. The White House sought “lasting peach” in a news release touting efforts to broker a deal between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Special Council is told to find crimes, wether crimes exist or not.”

Donal Trump | US President

If Trump directs Rosenstein to fire the special ‘council,’ I think we might be ok folks.”

Preet Bharara | Former US attorney, whom Trump fired last summer