--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump With Sidewalk Spelling Bee description: Jimmy Kimmel is calling out Trump for the since-deleted tweet in which the president misspelled "hamburgers" as "hamberders." canonical: https://time.com/5504256/jimmy-kimmel-trump-hamberders/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-16T15:48:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:59.404Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Challenges Pedestrians to Beat Trump at Spelling og:description: Can you spell "hamburgers"? og:url: https://time.com/5504256/jimmy-kimmel-trump-hamberders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c4a85ae4bb11241/6989435d457a52db8cd6053a/screen-shot-2019-01-16-at-10.11.55-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: JImmy-Kimmel-Spelling-Bee-Trump-Hamberders og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Challenges Pedestrians to Beat Trump at Spelling twitter:description: Can you spell "hamburgers"? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c4a85ae4bb11241/6989435d457a52db8cd6053a/screen-shot-2019-01-16-at-10.11.55-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Challenges Pedestrians to Beat Trump at Spelling  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 16, 2019 3:48 PM UTC  ABC/Jimmy Kimmel Live!  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 16, 2019 3:48 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5500354/trump-speech-peachy-dory-jimmy-kimmel/) is calling out [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5503032/president-trump-says-solution-to-shutdown-impasse-so-simple-rejects-legislative-fix/) for a since-deleted tweet in which the president boasted that he served over [1,000 “hamberders”](http://time.com/5502838/trump-clemson-football/) to the Clemson University football team. During Tuesday’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, the late-night host mocked Trump’s decision to feed the college football national champions fast food during their Monday visit to the White House. He then took aim at the President’s spelling error by airing a clip in which his team quizzed random passerby on the correct spelling of “hamburgers.” “In fairness to the president, with all he’s got going on, you can’t expect him to know how to spell ‘hamburgers,'” Kimmel said. “It’s a hard word to spell. It’s one of the hardest words to spell there is. In fact, we went out on the street this afternoon to see if we could find anyone who could spell it.” The results were pretty much as expected, with nearly all of the participants shown in the video easily completing the task. However, there was one woman who struggled with the word before settling with spelling “hotdog” instead. 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