--- title: Rudy Giuliani's Donald Trump Tweet Goes Viral Because Prank description: A punctuation error in Rudy Giuliani's tweet provided the perfect opportunity for the Internet for a prank about Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/5469780/rudy-giuliani-g20-tweet/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-03T20:37:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:16:31.423Z og:title: Someone Used Rudy Giuliani's Twitter Mistake to Troll Trump og:description: A tiny error created the ultimate opportunity og:url: https://time.com/5469780/rudy-giuliani-g20-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte008a63b93bbf333/6989406e86f68e3dc76eadac/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-tweet-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Weekend Meetings In Bedminster, NJ og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Used Rudy Giuliani's Twitter Mistake to Troll Trump twitter:description: A tiny error created the ultimate opportunity twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte008a63b93bbf333/6989406e86f68e3dc76eadac/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-tweet-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Uses Rudy Giuliani's Twitter Mistake to Troll Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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Jeff Flake and GOP leaders over legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 3, 2018 8:37 PM UTC A punctuation error in a recent tweet written by [Rudy Giuliani](http://time.com/5305631/melania-trump-rudy-giuliani/) has turned into an opportunity for the Internet to roast [Donald Trump.](http://time.com/5423126/donald-trump-republican-party-effects/) In a tweet sent out last Friday afternoon criticizing [Robert Mueller and his investigation about Russia’s alleged involvement](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-robert-mueller-runner-up/) in the 2016 presidential election, Giuliani writes at length about Trump’s attendance at the G-20 summit, but it appears he put a little less effort into making sure that his tweet had the correct punctuation. Specifically, he didn’t bother to put a space between the period ending one sentence and the first word of his next sentence — which inadvertently created a hyperlink. As is wont to happen on the Internet, some internet savvy person saw the creation of this link and a golden opportunity to troll Giuliani and the Trump administration. The [URL](http://g-20.in/) was purchased and then used to send a single message about how they felt about the president, reading: “Donald J. Trump is a traitor to our country.” See the tweet below. > [](https://twitter.com/WardDPatrick/status/1069662381708664832) ## Transcript [00:00] My colleagues have said that this legislation is not [00:02] necessary, some of my colleagues, as there hasn't been [00:05] any indication that Mr. Mueller will be removed from office. [00:10] And with a President tweeting on a regular basis, a daily [00:13] basis, that the Special Counsel is conflicted, that [00:18] he is leading so- called 12 angry democrats. And [00:22] demeaning ridiculing him in every way. to be so sanguine [00:26] about the chances of him be fired is folly for us I believe. [00:30] We've already seen the force resignation of the Attorney [00:33] General a day after the election it's clear therefore [00:37] that something has to be done to protect Mister Mueller's [00:40] investigation. Let me just say, it wasn't just that the Attorney [00:43] General was fired, it's that the investigation or an [00:47] oversight for the investigation was taken from the Deputy [00:51] Attorney General, where it properly belonged and where it [00:53] sat before. It was taken from him and given to somebody [00:57] who is in an acting capacity, somebody who has not been [01:02] Confirmed by the Senate. Should we here in the Senate be [01:06] okay with that? 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