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Twitter Users Shred Donald Trump Over Barbara Bush Tribute Typo

"When you care so much that you can't even bother to have the correct year on an official White House statement."
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President Donald Trump tweeted a tribute to former first lady Barbara Bush on Tuesday night, one that contained a glaring error.

His tweet about Bush, who died on Tuesday at 92, included a statement that was incorrectly dated April 17, 2017 — not 2018. Trump deleted the statement (which was released by the White House Office of the Press Secretary) two hours later, and substituted it with this post that had the date cropped out:

Unsurprisingly, the blunder did not go unnoticed:

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