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The White House shared a photo of Betsy DeVos, education secretary, on its Snapchat during the annual Easter Egg Roll.
Unfortunately, and rather ironically, it spelt her job title as “Secretary of Educatuon”:
The White House snapchat story just misspelt education #devos #EasterEggRoll #whitehouseeggroll https://t.co/tQa2evqC7v— anika todalen 🍂✨ (@anika todalen 🍂✨) 1492457647
And they didn't quite get away without anyone noticing:
Welkum too Dunnild Tromp's Merica https://t.co/nK2P5wiDRb— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1492458991
@kylegriffin1 Maybe they wanted to go with "Egg-ducation" and couldn't agree on a pun— Jared Rizzi (@Jared Rizzi) 1492459584
@kylegriffin1 @MikeDrucker That's a relief at least she's not sec of education!— Kathy Gori (@Kathy Gori) 1492477500
It’s not the first time this has happened, either.
In February – a mere two months ago – the Education Department spelt the name of sociologist, historian and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois ‘W.E.B. DeBois’.
Then, in an apology tweet, it stated: “Our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo”.
Hey @usedgov you misspelled "Du Bois" as "DeBois", got busted & apologized, then you misspelled "apologies" as "apo… https://t.co/ZdJI4Ikkgd— Judah Friedlander (@Judah Friedlander) 1486922582
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