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Greg Evans
Jan 10, 2019
We all know that for some bizarre reason Donald Trump has a problem with forest safety so it won't come as a surprise that the president is complaining about this again.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday afternoon, Trump said he was suspending payments to Californian forest management unless they got their "act together."
This came after the Woolsey fire in southern California, which was one of the most lethal wildfires that the United States had ever seen.
Whilst the message that Trump is sending here is certainly controversial there was a more amusing story at play. Although the above tweet is spelt correctly, the original tweet contained two glaring typos from the POTUS.
Rather than writing 'forest' Trump managed to write 'forrest' twice and Twitter had a field day with this since-deleted tweet.
brb writing a super villain with flame powers whose secret identity is Forrest Fires— Saladin Ahmed (@Saladin Ahmed) 1547045612
#ForrestTrump was soon trending, an obvious reference to the 1994 film Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks.
@realDonaldTrump Forrest is busy right now, he’s on the phone with Mueller. https://t.co/ncl9G3f5tf— Chas Z. Mathieu (@Chas Z. Mathieu) 1547046644
It should be pointed out that there is one major difference between Trump and Gump.
It’s not fair to call him #ForrestTrump. Forrest Gump actually went to Vietnam.— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) 1547046509
Some were hoping that Tom Hanks could help with the situation.
Excuse me, Mr @tomhanks? How should we go about Forrest Management? https://t.co/U3J8xVzfRi— AltPublicLands. 🏜🏔🏕🌲 (@AltPublicLands. 🏜🏔🏕🌲) 1547048281
The dictionary, as always, waded into to throw shade on the president.
Forest = A large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland. Forrest = A name preceding Gump. https://t.co/k3F9ZzjmyG— Dictionary.com (@Dictionary.com) 1547048605
Whilst the 'forrest' jokes have dominated the discourse, let's not overlook the important issue here.
The president's profoundly ignorant a.m. tweet about California "forrest" fires will get hit for repeated misspelli… https://t.co/QPGOObqY15— Mark Kaufman (@Mark Kaufman) 1547047392
HT Mashable
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