Donald Trump Mixes Up Hyphens and Apostrophes, Twitter Responds: 'One of the Dumbest Tweets I Have Ever Read'

Frequently taken to task for his spelling mistakes, now President Donald Trump has been mocked on social media for his punctuation after he confused an apostrophe for a hyphen.

Trump had tweeted on Thursday his disdain for the intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff who heard evidence from the acting intelligence director Joseph Maguire.

Schiff, a California Democrat, started the hearing by accusing Trump of a "classic organized crime shakedown" over his July 25 phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodomyr Zelensky.

A whistleblower's document alleged that Trump pressured Zelensky into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

After the hearing, in an apparent attempt to disparage Schiff, Trump tweeted: "Liddle' Adam Schiff, who has worked unsuccessfully for 3 years to hurt the Republican Party and President, has just said that the Whistleblower, even though he or she only had second hand information, "is credible."

Trump later tweeted that in reporting about the tweet, CNN had "purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong," suggesting that he intended it as a disparaging word akin to "Lil'"

Trump tweeted: "To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle', not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle' Adam Schiff", spelling 'describing' wrong.

"Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!"

"Liddle" started trending on Friday, with some Twitter users questioning why Trump was getting so heated about punctuation when he was facing an impeachment process.

Journalist Aaron Rupar tweeted to his 154,000 followers: "This is one of the dumbest tweets I have ever read. On top of everything else, the president doesn't know what a hyphen is."

Author Chuck Wendig tweeted to his 155,000 followers: "It's not a hyphen... and the hyphen wouldn't fix it anyway...god why is this even a thing."

Brian Tyler Cohen tweeted to his 75,000 followers: "Someday, people are going to wonder what the last things Donald Trump did were in the days before he was impeached and they're going to find this tweet complaining about a hyphen that is actually an apostrophe."

Meanwhile contributor to The Guardian and The Washington Post Holly Figueroa O'Reilly, told her 231,000 followers: "You're about to be impeached in the House and maybe even removed by the Senate and THIS is what you're focused on? First of all, it's not a hyphen after "Liddle". It's an apostrophe. Secondly, it's "describing", not "discribing."

Social media users are quick to point out orthographic mistakes he makes on Twitter. Some of these howlers include referring to "boarder security" in Arizona, inventing the word "covfefe" and he once said that his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen had managed to get off "Scott Free."

Last year, in a light-hearted move, online writing service EduBirdie offered Trump free proofreading services for the remainder of his presidential term.