--- title: Everyone Made the Same Forrest Trump Joke About This Tweet description: President Trump tweeted 'forrest' when he meant to address forest management. Naturally, Twitter referenced Forrest Gump as Forrest Trump canonical: https://time.com/5498053/forrest-trump/ author: Rachel E. 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Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Jan 9, 2019 4:51 PM UTC Watch Tom Hanks audition for Forrest Gump over 20 years ago in this video posted by Regal Reels by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Jan 9, 2019 4:51 PM UTC In the morning following his [Oval Office address](http://time.com/5497569/donald-trump-oval-office-address-transcript/) to the nation, President Trump took to Twitter to voice his feelings on a matter other than border security and the ongoing government shutdown: forest management. But in the latest example of the [President’s Twitter misspellings](http://time.com/5123902/state-of-the-union-tickets-typo/), “forest” became “forrest” and soon enough, “forrest Trump.” “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forrest fires that, with proper Forrest Management, would never happen,” President Trump posted on Wednesday morning, referencing last year’s deadly [forest fires in California](http://time.com/5453907/california-wildfires-adaptation/) that killed more than 80 people. “Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!” The President has since deleted the original tweet and reposted it with the proper spelling of ‘forest’ — removing what Twitter users couldn’t resist teasing was a reference to iconic 1994 Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks, _Forrest Gump._ > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083022011574747137) But this didn’t stop people on Twitter from imagining Tom Hanks, who played the eponymous Forrest Gump, in lieu of forest management. Eventually, #ForrestTrump even started trending. As is always the possible case, White House social media director Dan Scavino, who sometimes tweets from Trump, could have shared the now deleted language containing the spelling error. > [](https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/1083011210184929285) > [](https://twitter.com/Will%5FBunch/status/1083017709422632960) > [](https://twitter.com/steve%5Fvladeck/status/1083013634324905984) > [](https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1083016722297380864) > [](https://twitter.com/AndyDudas/status/1083012232970190848) > [](https://twitter.com/NancySara%5F78/status/1083015281272864768) > [](https://twitter.com/PaulTGeist/status/1083023482550652929) ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ SOUND ] And action. Forrest? Hi, there. Hi. Hi. Hi. I brought you something. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Thank you. [ LAUGH ] I ate some. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Mama sent me ten dollars, and I'd like to spend it all on you. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Come on, look, come over here. Let's sit down and talk for a second. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] We're good friends, aren't we? Well, you're my most special friend. And you are mine too. And I love when you come to see me and I just, sometimes I wish you would let me know when you're coming because I have plans tonight. Hey, Jenny. Hi, David, this is Forrest. Well, we could all spend mom's $ 10. [ SOUND ] Well, I'm going out with David, just the two of us. I need you to understand, okay? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Well, since I won't be doing anything, I won't be needing Mama's money. Listen, keep it. You keep it, and we'll do it another time, okay? I don't hold on to it okay. Come on Jane let's get going. All right, please don't hate me. I will never hate you. There you go very nice. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] On record. And action. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Hi. Denise. Forest. [ LAUGH ] Hi. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I ate some. [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I'm so glad you're here. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I want you to meet someone. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] You're a mama, Jenny? I'm a mama. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] His name is Forrest. It's like me. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I named him after his daddy. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] He has a daddy's named Forrest too ? >> [ BLANK_AUDIO ] You're his daddy. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Forest, look at me. Look at me. Let me tell you something. Look, [ BLANK_AUDIO ] There's nothing you need to do, okay? You didn't do anything wrong. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] You gave me life. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Isn't he beautiful? He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] No, no, no, he's not, he's smart. He's one of the smartest in his class. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Go see him. Go on, go talk to him. [ SOUND ] Cut. [ SOUND ] You can sit here if you want. Well, are you going to sit down or aren't you? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] What's wrong with your legs? Nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy. Then why do you have those shoes on? My mama says my back's crooked like a question mark. These are gonna make me as straight as an arrow. They're my magic shoes. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Do you like my dress? What? It's my party dress. What's a party? Haven't you ever been to a party before? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Are you stupid or something? My momma says stupid is as stupid does [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I'm Jenny. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Cut. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Order. And action. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Mama always says that God watches out for little children. I pray to him every night, but I don't believe he listens to me. You have to believe in God, Jenny. Hey! [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Just ignore them. What does ignore mean? Just don't pay any attention. I've never paying any attention to any than. Hey >> Run Forest, run Forest run. cut. And action. Forest wake up Jenny, what are you doing here? There's been a terrible accident. What's an accident mean? Something you didn't plan on. Accidents happen. You can come live with me and mama, Jenny. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Cut. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] And action. Would you read that book to me? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Serious Simon reads Dilfer tried to help himself, but [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] That's it? Instead. Instead of one balloon, the whole bunch broke loose. Up Up, he- [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Higher. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] He sailed. Sailed higher and higher. The houses look like toy houses and the people like dolls. What daddy? Nothing, I think you read a book really good. Is that what I'm supposed to say? What am I supposed to say? [ INAUDIBLE ] That's right. Well I just wanted to tell you that I love you. I love you too Daddy. Okay, then. Cut. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ SOUND ] And action. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I don't even know how old you are. How old are you? Five. You're five years old? Yeah. Are you gonna be six? April the 10th. So you had a birthday just last April? Yeah. What'd you get? Get any chocolates? No. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Do you like, do you watch cartoons? Yeah. What's your favorite? Disney Afternoon. Tuesday afternoon? Disney Afternoon. Disney Afternoon, do they show Scrooge McDuck? And Huey, Dewey and Louie and guys like that? Yeah. 1 ) Is it on the Disney Channel? 2 ) Under the duck. 1 ) What do they show? 2 ) Chip and Dale and Blinged and Darkwing Duck and lots of others. 1 ) Is Darkwing Duck like Batman? 2 ) Kind of. 1 ) Does he wear a hat? 2 ) Ummm 1 ) Look at that guy's hand What a bony old hand. He's, now it's a rabbit, he's doing shadow puppets. Right over here Haley, right here, right at my fingers right there. Yeah, [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Look at Guy's ugly shirt. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] And cut. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5498053/forrest-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5498053/forrest-trump/"},"headline":"'Forrest Trump.' 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