President Donald Trump revealed this Wednesday, in the presence of the First Lady, an anecdote that once caused him serious headaches: the autocorrect feature on his phone consistently changed the name “Melania” to “Melody” every time he tried to write it in his posts on Truth Social, his official communication platform.
Trump made the confession during a public event attended by Melania Trump, seemingly triggered by the presence of a woman named Melody, which led him to recount the incident with a tone of apology and humor in front of the audience.
"They have spell check and word correction, and these crazy machines we use to post on Truth Social, which used to be called tweets. And every time I wrote Melania, it corrected it to Melody," the president explained.
According to his account, the problem worsened because he worked "very quickly, very quickly" when drafting his messages and sometimes did not review them before posting. The result was that several posts went out with the wrong name, including Mother's Day greetings addressed to the First Lady.
He said, "Melania is fantastic" and "Happy Mother's Day, Melania, our great First Lady, Melania." But he corrected it to "Melody." And sometimes he didn't review it, and they absolutely wrecked me," Trump admitted.
The reaction on social media was swift: users claimed that the president didn't know the name of his own wife. "They said, 'He doesn't know his wife's name, he keeps calling her...'" And I thought, what the hell is wrong with this machine? I didn't know anything about that little feature," he recalled with laughter.
The problem was resolved, as Trump himself recounted, with unexpected help: the military personnel. "Do you know who fixed it? The military. I said to them: 'Come here, you have to fix this. They are killing me,'" he narrated.
At the end of his story, Trump apologized to the audience: "I've received a lot of attacks. They've called her Melody many times. Anyway, I had to explain it this way. I got up here to explain it to you. I'm sorry."
The incident adds to a long history of typographical errors in Trump's digital publications. The most famous was "covfefe," posted in May 2017, an incomplete and nonsensical tweet that went viral around the world and remained unedited for six hours.
During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, analysts documented over 1,100 errors in approximately 8,000 tweets, with error rates 2% to 3% above average. Other notable slips included "unpresidented" instead of "unprecedented" and "smocking" instead of "smoking."
Truth Social, launched in February 2022 following Trump's suspension on Twitter, does not have a retroactive editing feature equivalent to that of other networks, leaving mistakes publicly visible until the author deletes and republishes them.
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