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mia

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 12:15 PM Oct 2019

'Esperanto' Trends as Trump Misspells the Name of His Own Defense Secretary

'ESPERANTO' TRENDS AS TRUMP MISSPELLS NAME OF HIS OWN DEFENSE SECRETARY MARK ESPER

In an error-ridden Sunday morning tweet, President Donald Trump attributed a statement about the U.S.-Turkey ceasefire to his Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper. But in a mistake that quickly sparked a trending hashtag, he called the top military official "Mark Esperanto."

The tweet was shared thousands of times before being deleted and appeared to directly contradict the plans to shift troops from Syria into western Iraq—not back to the U.S.

...Before it was scrubbed from the Twitter account, but screen-shotted countless times no doubt, the tweet was widely lambasted by political commentators and turned into a slew of memes.

"So much wrong in this tweet," wrote Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin in response to the president's update, shared more than 1,000 times. "US troops are not coming home, they are going to Iraq. We don't have the oil. And the Defense Secretary's name is not 'Esperanto.'"
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'Esperanto' Trends as Trump Misspells the Name of His Own Defense Secretary (Original Post) mia Oct 2019 OP
I keep waiting for Esperanto to become a UN language. TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #1
I see what you did there! MoonRiver Oct 2019 #3
Dolty Donny, well done. nt Mc Mike Oct 2019 #2
You should have asked 'Melanie'. keithbvadu2 Oct 2019 #4
I'm sure he was thinking of Esperanza (I know I often do) ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2019 #5
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