A satirical article from The Borowitz Report claiming President Trump deleted a tweet nine times after persistently spelling “Subpoena” incorrectly is mistaken as genuine news by many social media users.
The article reads in part –
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)–Donald J. Trump deleted nine tweets early Wednesday morning in a failed attempt to spell the word “subpoena,” a White House source confirmed.
According to the source, Trump spent more than an hour angrily trying to spell the legal term before giving up in disgust.
“I’ve never seen him so enraged,” the source said. “He hates the word ‘subpoena’ more than the E.P.A. hates the words ‘climate’ and ‘change.’ ”
The Borowitz Report is the satirical section of The New Yorker magazine. While the articles published by The Borowitz Report are clearly marked as satire, they are still housed on The New Yorker’s (a legitimate outlet) domain, so they are sometimes mistaken for genuine New Yorker articles. The Borowitz Report articles are written by satirist Andrw Borowitz.
It is also likely that many mistook the satirical article as true because this wouldn’t have been the first time the 45th US President struggled with spelling in tweets. In 2017, Trump had deleted a tweet twice after misspelling “hereby” (once spelling it hear by.)