Trump's education minister nominee trolled on Twitter for incorrect grammar

Washington: It’s tough to cover up a mistake on social media, especially when you are a nominee for the education minister postition of the United States of America. Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for the post of United States Secretary of education was latest to be trolled on Twitter, after her grammatically incorrect tweet went viral on the social micro-blogging website.

DeVos had written a congratulatory tweet to the new president after the inauguration ceremony saying, “Honored to witness the historical inauguration and swearing-in ceremony for the 45th President of the United States! (sic).”

Subsequently, a volley of tweets poured in slamming DeVos for her tweet. A tweet where the mistakes were marked in a red pen also went viral.

While she put up a corrected tweet, the jibes didn’t end as the edited tweet also had few errors, resulting in more trolls.

DeVos’ nomination for the education minister post has been wrought with controversy after she was unable to give satisfactory answers to questions at her confirmation hearing. She was asked about her contribution to the Republican party, her opinions on the LGBT community, her billionaire status and if guns should be banned from school.

Her answers, especially for the last question to which she said “That is best left locals and states to decide,” had drawn severe criticism and backlash. When questioned further, the nominee had quoted a case where a gun was used for protection from grizzly bears.

Interestingly, DeVos was not the only one slammed by the Twitterati for incorrect English. She had illustrious company as the President himself was mocked after her misspelled the word ‘honoured’ in one of his first tweets post inauguration.

While the tweet was quickly taken off the account, it did not fail to catch the attention of the vigilante on Twitter.

As per media reports, deleting the tweet could have been illegal as documents an records relating to the US president has to be archived under the Presidential Records Act. Predecessors have interpreted the act to include social media posts.

Barack Obama’s team has been quoted saying that they archive tweets before deleting them to ensure that there was no breach of law. However, it is not known yet if Trump’s team had archived the deleted tweet.