Learn to Spell

"It's Strait, not Straight. This dude doesn't even know that! Such a disaster," wrote one person.

Another said, "I think he's actually mad that it's curved and not in a straight line. Because he has the critical thinking ability of a 5-year-old."

A third person said, "Somebody please tell Trump that his use of scare quotation marks and random capitalization makes him even less credible."

While someone else said, "OMG, it's just unbelievable that we have a president that is this stupid."

The typo itself might have been minor, but given how quick Trump is to tease and mock people, social media was not about to let him live this down.

Big Liar

What is wrong with him? He has got to know that making a statement about recently talking to a former president is easily fact-checked. He must have a huge imagination. Or he's just a liar who cannot stop.

Twice on Monday, President Donald Trump said he’d wrangled a confession of sorts from an Oval Office predecessor who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the way Trump has been doing for more than two weeks.

But there’s just a little problem: Representatives for the four living former presidents — three Democrats and one Republican — said none have been in touch with Trump recently.

Trump declined to name the former president when reporters asked who it was, saying he didn’t want to “embarrass him.”

The Republican president first told the story during extended remarks about the Iran war as he opened a meeting of the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center. Trump is chairman of the board and held the meeting at the White House.

He repeated that Iran had been a threat to the United States for decades but said he is the only president who had the courage to do something about it.

“Look, for 47 years, no president was willing to do what I’m doing, and they should have done it a long time ago,” he said. “It would have been a lot easier. There’s no president that wanted to do it.

“And yet every president knew. I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like, actually, a past president, a former president. He said, ‘I wish I did it, I wish I did,’ but they didn’t do it. I’m doing it,” Trump continued.

Asked which former president he’d spoken to, Trump said: “I can’t tell you that. I don’t want to embarrass him. It would be very bad for his career, even though he’s got no career.”

Representatives for each of former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden said they had not spoken with Trump recently. The individuals spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the former presidents’ private conversations.

(To be fair, I suppose it is possible the "representatives for each former president" may have spoken inaccurately.)