Donald Trump has deleted an error-riddled Truth Social message posted late on Sunday night.
Fresh from his Thanksgiving holiday in Florida, the 79-year-old began an angry post that initially read “Ther [sic] are laws that effect our nation.”
After deleting his first attempt, Trump managed to spell “there” correctly the second time around. After initially getting “effect” and “affect” confused, he also subbed in the less problematic word “impact” instead.
Both posts ended with Trump ranting: “DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!!!”
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
Despite explicitly noting its statutory citation under the United States Code, Trump appeared to think the passage he used in his rant was a direct quote from former U.S. Navy Commander Kirk Lippold.
Now retired from the force and working as an inspirational speaker, Lippold was in command of the USS Cole in 2000 when it was targeted by al Qaeda suicide bombers in Yemen. The devastating attack, which left 17 sailors dead and 37 injured, was later attributed to failures in intelligence warning systems.
Trump’s tirade against “traitors” follows after six Democrat lawmakers, including Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former Navy captain and NASA astronaut, released a video last month in which they reminded members of the Armed Forces and intelligence community they had a constitutional duty to refuse illegal orders.
Trump called them the “Seditious Six” and even posted that the lawmakers had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth then threatened to call Sen. Kelly back to active service so he could be court-martialed for appearing in the video, which also featured five other Democratic members of Congress with military or intelligence experience.
In a social media post, Hegseth declared, “Kelly’s conduct brings discredit upon the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately.”
Kelly lashed out at Hegseth’s threats. “This is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and it’s about intimidation,” Kelly told The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.
“The whole thing is almost comical,” he added. “It’s absurd.”
Kelly said he was not fazed by Trump essentially calling for his death on social media.
“People listen to what he says, more so than anybody else in the country. He should be careful with his words, but I’m not going to be silenced here,” he said.
“I’m going to show up for work every day, support the Constitution, do my job, hold this administration accountable. Hold this president accountable when he is out of line. That’s the responsibility of every U.S. senator and every member of Congress. He’s not going to silence us.”
Last week, another Trump anti-Democrat Truth Social post went viral, using an offensive slur against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Trump called Walz “ret--ed” in a scathing post at Thanksgiving, where he also called out political correctness.
On Sunday, Trump refused to apologize for his use of the slur.
“There’s something wrong with him, absolutely, sure,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
“I think there’s something wrong with him. Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars [to] Somalia—we give billions of dollars to Somalia. It’s not even a country, because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name, but it doesn’t function like a country. Yeah, there’s something wrong with Walz.”
