President Donald Trump is known for making spelling and grammatical errors in this tweets, but his typo on Friday, while criticizing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, was particularly unfortunate.
"Wow! Big pushback on Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York for his really dumb statement about America's lack of greatness. I have already MADE America Great Again, just look at the markets, jobs, military- setting records, and we will do even better. Andrew "chocked" badly, mistake!" Trump tweeted.
While he clearly meant to write "choked," Trump instead tweeted out a word that, according to the Urban Dictionary, is an explicit sexual slang word. Twitter quickly picked up on the mistake and within minutes Trump had deleted the tweet and sent out a new one with the correct spelling of "choked."
The word "chocked" can also mean "to prevent the forward movement of (a wheel or vehicle) with a chock," but that was not the definition many Twitter users picked up on.
Trump is not always so quick to correct errors, and reports have suggested that Trump, and his staffers with access to his Twitter account, often deliberately insert spelling mistakes into his tweets.
His tweet Thursday referred to a much-publicized speech by Cuomo earlier this week in which he said, "We're not going to make America great again, it was never that great," in a play on Trump's famed campaign slogan.
Cuomo's press secretary later tried to clarify the remarks and put them in context.
"Governor Cuomo disagrees with the president," Dani Lever said. "The governor believes America is great, and that her full greatness will be fully realized when every man, woman, and child has full equality. America has not yet reached its maximum potential."
Still, Trump latched onto the comment in a series of attacks on the governor of his home state, who is seen as a potential opponent in the 2020 presidential election.
The president continued to go after Cuomo following his corrected tweet.
"When a politician admits that "We're not going to make America great again," there doesn't seem to be much reason to ever vote for him. This could be a career threatening statement by Andrew Cuomo, with many wanting him to resign-he will get higher ratings than his brother Chris!"
Cuomo is up for re-election in November. In September's Democratic primary he will take on Cynthia Nixon, but the incumbent is currently polling way ahead of her.
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