Chris Evans corrects 'moronic' Donald Trump's spelling on Twitter

The president frequently misspells words on Twitter

Chelsea Ritschel
in New York
Wednesday 22 August 2018 16:51 BST
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Chris Evans calls out Trump on Twitter (Getty)
Chris Evans calls out Trump on Twitter (Getty)

President Trump is known for his grammatical errors and poor spelling of his tweets - an issue that “Captain America” actor Chris Evans recently took issue with.

After Trump, again, misspelled the word “counsel” in a tweet, Evans corrected the president - before hypothesising the reason behind the frequent mistake.

Quote-tweeting Trump’s use of “councel,” Evans responded: “It’s ‘counsel,’ Biff. The word is ‘counsel.’”

“I was trying to comprehend how in the world a man, even as moronic as you, can misspell a word he probably reads fifty times a day. But then it dawned on me, you probably only HEAR the word,” Evans wrote.

“You don’t read sh*t,” the actor concluded. “And we all know it.”

Evans’ response received more than 113,000 likes and thousands of comments from people amused by his reaction.

“I can’t tell you how much good it does to my soul to know that Captain America cares this much about spelling errors,” one person wrote.

The actor, an outspoken critic of the president, isn’t the first to condemn Trump’s spelling of counsel.

Earlier in the year, the dictionary also made it a point to correct the president’s vocabulary.

In response to President Trump’s March 21 tweet about Robert Mueller, in which he said he was “opposed to the selection of Mueller to be Special Council,” Dictionary.com took it upon itself to teach the president the definitions and spelling variations of the word.

“Council: An assembly of persons convened for consultation.

“Counsel: The advocate or advocates engaged in the direction of a cause in court.

“Special Counsel: Bob Mueller,” Dictionary.com clarified.

Author JK Rowling also recently joined in on the fun, mocking the president’s grasp of the English language with her own typo-riddled tweet in which she compared him to a schoolyard bully after he’d tweeted that the New York Times is “fake news.”

The president frequently misspells words on Twitter (Getty)

“I don’t care what Kids at School call me because they are all Disgusting Fake Losers and my Real Friends go to a different Scool you haven’t heard of and they think Im the Coolest and Smartest and we go to parties and I don’t have to tell you there Names for this to be True,” Rowling wrote in the tweet, imitating the president’s frequent typos and spelling errors.

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