President Donald Trump began his return from a 12-day trip to Asia by apparently tweeting about the wrong mass shooting.
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday night, Trump tweeted: “May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI and Law Enforcement has arrived.”
Trump’s tweet on Tuesday night should sound familiar. On Nov. 5, Trump tweeted nearly the same thing about the shooting in Texas, where a gunman killed 26 people at a church.
“May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan,” the president tweeted last week.
May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2017
Wednesday’s errant tweet disappeared from Trump’s timeline shortly before 9am ET, but the president had not posted any statements or corrections about it. The White House did not respond to a request for comment by the Daily Dot about whether Trump mistakenly tweeted about Sutherland Springs instead of the shooting in California.
It’s possible that a draft tweet could have been inadvertently sent out, given the similarities between the Nov. 5 tweet and the one sent on Tuesday night. However, people on social media accused Trump of copying and pasting his heartfelt condolences, given the similarity between the tweet on Nov. 5 and the one sent out on Tuesday night.
Did u just copy & paste this & forget to change the city?
— Joe C (@cadillaccannon) November 15, 2017
Jesus H. Tap-dancing Christ, did you just copy/paste without updating? Is that how routine this has become?!!!? How about <please insert your hometown> and we’ll just customize for you every goddamn week? #Asshole
— Tennesseine (@Tennesseine) November 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/930763748905836545
My God be with the people of [insert next mass shooting location here]. The FBI and Law Enforcement *have* (correct grammar mine) arrived. #GunControlNow #TrumpIsAMoron
— kim (@hopewell711) November 15, 2017
Jesus, he copy pasted his response to a mass shooting and forgot to change the location.
— Jason McMillan (@Jason_McMillan7) November 15, 2017
What a clown.
And, the FBI and Law Enforcement HAVE arrived. https://t.co/dM6kdu3fzL
Update 8:07am CT, Nov. 15: Trump’s tweet has been deleted.