During President Trump's speech to reporters outside of the White House on Monday, a few photographers managed to capture shots of his handwritten notes and revealed he's not exactly the "good speller" he claims to be, HuffPost reported.
Speaking to the press to defend his weekend tweets regarding Democratic congresswomen, Trump made visible his notes and showed the world the many spelling mistakes he made while penning his speech, some of which were rather simple words.
He told those in attendance that "the fingers aren't as good as the brain."
"Really I'm actually a good speller," he said.
The president is known for tweeting out messages riddled with typos, later deleting them and re-posting with corrected versions.
In fact, he's not that great of a speller when it comes to simple pen and paper, either.
Several photographers in attendance at Trump's Monday speech managed to grab some shots of his prepared notes which were typed and included handwritten additions. And the "typos" were a-plenty.
One of the most glaring mistakes would have to be Trump's phonetic attempt at spelling "al Qaeda" as "alcaida".
Or, there's the word "people" which the POTUS spelled as "peopel." Definitely close, but not close enough, unfortunately.
One person threw out a proposed definition for this new "alcaida" word, while another gave a tongue-in-cheek response in which they implored that Americans "never forget when we were attacked by Alcaida".
"Notice how he's written 'some people' in the upper right corner as a reminder that's the 'source' for his lies," one user wrote.
Another added, "Is it too much to ask to have a President who knows how to spell, in any variation, al-Qaeda? There are numerous ways to spell it. 'Alcaida' is one of the few that's DEFINITELY wrong."
"He's ignorant, with a severely limited vocabulary, poor grades at Wharton as his professors stated, one of the worst students at NYMA," a Twitter user wrote. "He is dysfunctional in regards to daily affairs."
Among the more memorable moments include "covfefe", which if you'll recall was a 2017 misspelled word that was retweeted thousands of times, becoming one of the most popular tweets of that year and spawning an unimaginable slew of memes.
The Facebook game Words with Friends even added "covfefe" to its dictionary, and there was also plenty of "covfefe" merch available for purchase, but the fad eventually died out.
As at least one person on Twitter pointed out, it was a spelling bad enough that their spell-checker had no suggestions on what he might have been trying to write.
Thankfully, we can always count on the president to deliver even more hilarious mistakes for us to needlessly obsess over.
h/t: HuffPost
