'Covfefe' and 17 More Times Donald Trump Failed at Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation

Donald Trump's tweet from Tuesday night, a sentence fragment using the nonsense word "covfefe" — we think he meant "coverage" — has led to renewed laughter at his errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation; the internet has gone wild lampooning the bizarre tweet. Now, we know it's easy to make a typo in a tweet, and not everyone knows all the rules of grammar and punctuation, but is it too much to ask that the leader of the free world be a little less sloppy? The Advocate has documented Trump's "unpresidented" Twitter errors in detail. On the following pages you'll find our second list of them, and you can access our first installment here. Trump has deleted some of the error-filled tweets and replaced them with corrected ones — like when he spelled "hereby" wrong twice, as "hear by" and "hearby." But a lot of his errors still live on the internet.

This tweet not only makes a questionable assertion, it punctuates it incorrectly. There is no hyphen in "nonsense." And "cover-up" is a noun — when the term is used as a verb phrase, as here, it's two separate words, no hyphen.

Another questionable statement, more errors. "Tap" has only one p. And really, since he's phrasing this as a question, it should have a question mark at the end.

There's no reason for the quote marks. And it should be one word.

We have no idea why Trump thinks he needs quote marks here. Also, we have great doubts that the wiretapping occurred — FBI director James Comey says there's no evidence.

No need for these quote marks either. And "picked off," as a verb phrase, doesn't get a hyphen.

"CEOs" doesn't need an apostrophe to be plural. With an apostrophe, it becomes possessive — the CEO's office, for instance.

Here he omits the apostrophe where it's needed — to make a contraction of "let us."

In this sentence, "this year's" is possessive, so it needs an apostrophe.

No need for the commas here.

No, Donald, it's not fake news, and your predecessor actually left the country in pretty good shape. Also, "mainstream" is one word.

The stock market needs capital, but the term doesn't need to be capitalized. Also, "15-year" should be hyphenated as an adjective. 

Yes, the g is next to the h, and it's easy to hit the wrong key — but it's also easy to proofread 140 characters. 

"Lifeline" has no hyphen.

"What is going on there" is phrased as a question, so it needs a question mark at the end. And then "totally," beginning a new sentence, should be capitalized. Also: While Chicago's murder rate has spiked in the past couple of years, it's still lower than it was in the mid-1990s — and many large U.S. cities and even smaller towns have higher rates.

If you really feel honored, Donald, you'd learn how to spell it. He made a similar mistake during the campaign.

Oh, if only he could be "unpresidented." Maybe he will be.

Finally, this tweet is a perfect storm of mistakes. It should be "loose cannon," not "lose," and "instincts," in insticts." And judgement with an e in the middle is an alternative spelling, but without the e is preferred, according to Merriam-Webster. And "because" is a better usage here than "in that."