--- 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. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-09T16:51:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:50.186Z og:title: Everyone's Making This Same Joke About Trump's Mispelling og:description: #ForrestTrump is trending on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/5498053/forrest-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03f6822b34796f30/698942f48fd2ee7b5835d8b2/forrest-gump-trump-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: forrest-gump-trump-tweets og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Everyone's Making This Same Joke About Trump's Mispelling twitter:description: #ForrestTrump is trending on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03f6822b34796f30/698942f48fd2ee7b5835d8b2/forrest-gump-trump-tweets.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Forrest Trump.' Everyone's Making the Same Joke About President Trump's Spelling Error by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Jan 9, 2019 4:51 PM UTC  Tom Hanks in 'Forrest Gump,' 1994. Tom Hanks in 'Forrest Gump,' 1994.Phillip Caruso—Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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) ```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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