The Trump administration misspelled "separation" in an executive order on family separation

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Vox


As initially published, the order addressed family “seperation.”
By Li [email protected] Jun 20, 2018, 5:10pm EDT

The Trump administration released its highly anticipated executive order on family separation Wednesday afternoon. And in the grand tradition of many Trump White House documents, something wasn’t quite right.

See if you can spot it:



White House

That’s right: The order meant to address family separation misspelled “separation.”

While the misspelling was quickly fixed, the latest example of the Trump administration’s ongoing struggles in that domain (see: the Department of Education Snapchat) left the impression that the executive order had been prepared hastily.

The White House’s executive order addresses the administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy that criminally prosecutes all adults entering the United States illegally. As part of this policy, adults were held in federal jail while awaiting trial and their children were put in federal custody, forcing family separations.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17485518/trump-family-separation-executive-order-immigration-typo

[C_U_L8R]

1. That's their 'excuse' for doing nothing

or doing something more horrific.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Wasn't Melanie in charge of proofreading it?

[ashredux]

3. Good Lord....SPELLCHECK!!!!

Even an intern knows this

[sheshe2]

4. ...

[canetoad]

5. Not a spelling error

That's their loophole.

[Glimmer of Hope]

6. Be best.

[SeattleVet]

7. Maybe they did it on purpose, like when the send out 'his' tweets.

They have said that they are making intentional errors in spelling and grammar so that it looks like he actually wrote it.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Unbelievably sad. n/t

[Voltaire2]

8. Of course. Vile idiots up and down the line.

[procon]

9. What an amatuer, third class operation.

They don't even have a professional secretary or a skilled data input clerk, so one of the bottom deeding, lowbrow, unqualified staff assistants or an intern must have been drafted to type up this drivel.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. "Amateur" (This IS a thread about spelling, rite?)

[truthisfreedom]

10. They ARE their base. Low information. Low intelligence. And they don't care.

Sloppy shitty students who got by, by being bullies.

[Paladin]

11. If basic human decency is passe', why worry about spelling errors? (nt)

[LuckyLib]

12. Proofreading? What's that?

[displacedtexan]

15. What do you expect from Liberty U grads?

Remember...these are the folks who will run our new Space Force. What could possibly go wrong?

[DonViejo]

16. Locking....

Forum Hosts feel the Trump Administration's failure to qualify for the Spelling-Bee contest is not important news of national interest.