Trump spelled 'forest' wrong twice in a woefully bad tweet about California fires

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Trump spelled 'forest' wrong twice in a woefully bad tweet about California fires

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Trump spelled 'forest' wrong twice in a woefully bad tweet about California fires

People watch as the Holy Fire burns in Cleveland National Forest.

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By Chloe Bryan2019-01-09 16:25:49 UTC

Donald Trump's messaging on the fires in California has been, for the most part, woefully misguided. Although he blames the onslaught on forest mismanagement exclusively, it's actually a much more complicated issue — weather, climate change, human-building, and mismanagement are all to blame. And many of the state's worst fires don't happen in forests at all.

Trump added another layer of ignorance to his stance on Wednesday morning, when he attacked the state of California for failing to do "proper Forrest Management."

And as everyone on Twitter noticed immediately, he spelled "forest" wrong. It was also capitalized for some reason, a classic Trump move.

Cue the Forrest Gump jokes.

Forrest Management gave us Elvis’s dance, Watergate, Bubba Shrimp, Apple, the lyrics to Imagine and those Have A Nice Day T-shirt’s. Trump is right here. Could definitely handle some fires. https://t.co/2Bb5klFPaf

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 9, 2019

The tweet has since been replaced with one that spells "forest" correctly. It does not, however, correct any of the lying. 

The president's profoundly ignorant a.m. tweet about California "forrest" fires will get hit for repeated misspellings. But more importantly, many of the worst CA fires don't happen in forests at all. And these fires, which are largely accidental, won't stop anytime soon #forrest https://t.co/for5kQTcwN

— Mark Kaufman (@SkepticalRanger) January 9, 2019

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January 9, 2019 at 10:27AM