

"Theresa Scrivener is one confused lady right now," wrote another user.Īside from the eye-rolling at his latest gaffe, Trump's promotion of videos from Britain First combined with such a public swipe at May triggered anger and concern. "Poor Theresa Scrivener must have wondered what she had done!" tweeted another. "Today, I feel sorry for Theresa Scrivener waking up to THIS from the President of the United States," read one tweet. While many were amused at Trump's misfiring, some spared a thought for Theresa May Scrivener. It didn't take long for news of Trump's error to spread. Trump kept the wording of his second attempt the same. This time he mentioned the correct Twitter handle and targeted the actual prime minister of the United Kingdom. just received a diplomatic correspondence by tweet from the US President," tweeted Gerard Brady, who attached a screen-grab of Trump's error. "The best part about this is that a random woman called Theresa May Scrivener, with 6 followers. We are doing just fine!" Trump's tweet was soon deleted. The initial tweet reads: "Theresa don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. Screen-grabs of the presidential error were taken and shared within seconds. It didn't take long for eagle-eyed Twitter users to pounce on Trump's mistake. Trump's schoolboy error was met with shock, amusement and left many Brits wondering: "Who in the world is Theresa May Scrivener?" In Trump fashion, he took to Twitter to air his grievances but targeted the wrong for Trump, the target of his tweet was not the prime minister of the United Kingdom as he had intended but in fact another woman named Theresa May Scrivener who had just six followers and a protected account. Taking aim at Prime Minister Theresa May's sharp rebuke of his actions, Trump wanted May to know he was unhappy. It had been an unusual day in Britain, with President Donald Trump retweeting several videos from far-right group Britain First.

I am very clear that retweeting Britain First was the wrong thing to do.” It came as Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the U.S., revealed he made a formal complaint to the White House.LONDON - Donald Trump got the wrong woman and Twitter users were there to screen-grab the evidence. She told her audience, “The fact that we work together does not mean that we’re afraid to say when we think the United States have got it wrong…. Most news channels showed it live due to Trump’s Twitter storm.
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The subject was how to work with Muslim allies to combat terrorism. She made a dry foreign policy speech in Jordan yesterday that had seemed unlikely to be covered by the British media. Ironically, the President’s tweets highlighted British Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to the Middle East. It would go down badly, no matter how innocuous the tweet itself was. She might have had a fair point about the acts of violence depicted in her tweets, but imagine if the British prime minister retweeted the Klu Klux Klan. In short, this is not a woman concerned about Islamic extremism she is a nasty extremist with criminal convictions.
