Trump fires off tweet to ‘wrong’ Theresa May

A British woman has been on the receiving end of scores of tweets and phone calls after US President Donald Trump mistakenly tweeted at her instead of Prime Minister Theresa May.

Theresa Scrivener, who lives in Bognor, used her middle name to set up the account @ Theresamay in 2009. She has been inundated with messages after Mr Trump directed a tweet at her on Wednesday night.

His message, sent in response to the Prime Minister rebuking his retweet of anti-muslim videos published by a Uk-based far-right activist, read: “@Theresamay, 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!”

Speaking yesterday, Miss Scrivener said she had received “huge numbers” of messages, adding: “If I wanted to be famous I would have gone on X Factor. It’s amazing to think that the world’s most powerful man managed to press the wrong button. I’m just waiting for a call from the White House with an apology.”

Most of the responses on Twitter were from people offering their condolences, with many Americans apologising for their president.

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

Miss Scrivener, 41, said the first she heard of the incident was when she woke at 4am to huge numbers of messages on her phone.