Trump Gets Mocked on Twitter for Smocking Gun Tweet

Updated: December 10, 2018 10:30 AM [ET] | Originally published: December 10, 2018 9:08 AM EST;

The internet is not done schooling President Trump on his Twitter typos.

President Donald Trump began the week with a missive claiming that prosecutors have been unable to find evidence of collusion between his Russia and his presidential campaign, tweeting:

“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…”

“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018

....which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s - but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018

The pair of tweets from early Monday morning were the latest in his ongoing criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Suffice it to say the smocking mockery was swift as the commander-in-chief’s frequent critics wasted no time in targeting the word usage.

Today in Spellcheck Can't Save You:

'Smocking' is a type of embroidery made of many small folds sewn into place. https://t.co/3wbxPG24ne
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) December 10, 2018

A smocking nun.

am i too late for this? I was napping earlier. pic.twitter.com/E1wV5nFOF7
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) December 10, 2018

Yes. It's that mysterious Smocking Man from X-Files. pic.twitter.com/pYsgduC7Xv
— Ken Rudin (@kenrudin) December 10, 2018

🎵I saw mommy smocking Santa Claus
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 10, 2018

“Smocking gun”. Did orange dumbass smock another bong of stupidity? https://t.co/o5giToctDK
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) December 10, 2018

Smocking is just a rich, wonderful, quilty, nursery-school-craft-project word — I smell the paste https://t.co/zOf3HjlGou
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) December 10, 2018

No Smocking, please. 🔥🔥🔥
— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) December 10, 2018

Quit smocking or Ray Liotta will shoot you.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 10, 2018

Trump calls creating a shell company to pay off a porn star from disclosing an extramarital affair weeks before a presidential election a "simple private transaction."

It's also *smoking gun. pic.twitter.com/TMao7CLeAO
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 10, 2018

No Collusion? You’re smocking us. https://t.co/I7aCg1Ekcq
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) December 10, 2018

What is a "smocking gun"?
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 10, 2018

Some suggested the snafu was no mistake.

there is absolutely no way he doesn't genuinely think it's spelled "smocking"
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) December 10, 2018

Merriam Webster defines smocking as “a decorative embroidery or shirring made by gathering cloth in regularly spaced round tucks.”

And while jokes about the administration’s wording and typos have been consistent, a pattern repeated as people took to Twitter to remind POTUS about the importance of one misplaced letter, this was no new misspelling.

Trump has tweeted “smocking gun” before, an error late night hosts like Stephen Colbert couldn’t resist digging into.

Trump has a history with smocking pic.twitter.com/dFKRd4811y
— The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) December 10, 2018

Trump Tweeted ‘Smocking Gun’ and the Internet Got Crafty

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