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malaise

(269,011 posts)
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 07:28 PM Nov 2017

He really is the Dotard in chief-"Im just waiting for a call from the White House with an apology.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/30/theresamay-trump-twitter-tirade
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When Donald Trump pressed send on a tweet to @theresamay, he thought he had aimed it at the prime minister of one of Washington’s closest allies. He wrote: “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!”

But it was sent to the wrong Theresa May.

The owner of @theresamay is Theresa May Scrivener, a 41-year-old woman who lives in Bognor and has six Twitter followers. She slept through the excitement.

“I wasn’t really sure what to make of it,” she told the Press Association. “I was in bed by half 10 last night and oblivious to it all. It has been very surreal. I haven’t been able to leave my house. I’ve been bombarded and been contacted by press from around the world.”

Scrivener said she had received thousands of messages about Trump’s tweet. “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.”
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He really is the Dotard in chief-"Im just waiting for a call from the White House with an apology. (Original Post) malaise Nov 2017 OP
"pressing the wrong button" C_U_L8R Nov 2017 #1
Indeed malaise Nov 2017 #3
That Vicar's daughter spoke for all of us. delisen Nov 2017 #7
Exactly JDC Nov 2017 #9
Sympathy to Theresa May Scrivener (the real Theresa May, as I like to think of her), Denzil_DC Nov 2017 #2
Two from two for the dingbat malaise Nov 2017 #4
Thump watched that video in the WH theater......he knew which May he wanted Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #5
I should probably have added a NSFW warning to that Mirror link, BTW. Denzil_DC Nov 2017 #6
Unbelievable. cwydro Nov 2017 #8

delisen

(6,043 posts)
7. That Vicar's daughter spoke for all of us.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 08:08 PM
Nov 2017

Unfortunately I can see Pence also pushing a certain button.

It is like that Robert Frost poem about whether the world will end in fire or ice.

Trump is the hothead emotional fire (I'll fix them all!) and Pence is the cold calculating ice(Mother, I think it is time for the final solution).

Denzil_DC

(7,242 posts)
2. Sympathy to Theresa May Scrivener (the real Theresa May, as I like to think of her),
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 07:34 PM
Nov 2017

but Trump/the White House seem to make a habit of this (from January 2017):

White House confuses Theresa May's name with PORN STAR in embarrassing gaffe ahead of historic Donald Trump meeting

...

It emerged this morning it mistook the spelling of vicar's daughter Theresa May's name the with glamour model/actress Teresa May in media guidance notes.

The British PM is set to meet Donald Trump this afternoon - the new US president's first meeting with a foreign head of state.

The White House's daily guidance and press schedule from the office of the press secretary reads: "In the afternoon, the president will partake in a bilateral meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister, Teresa May" - missing out the "h" in her name, despite spelling it correctly elsewhere.

...

Teresa May - without the "h" - is in fact a soft porn actress and glamour model who also starred in a video for the song Smack My Bitch Up, by dance music band The Prodigy.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/white-house-confuses-british-pm-9702513

Denzil_DC

(7,242 posts)
6. I should probably have added a NSFW warning to that Mirror link, BTW.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 07:44 PM
Nov 2017

Depends how stuffy your workplace is, of course.

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