Trump's staffers reportedly write his tweets with deliberate grammatical errors

Congratulations if you could tell.
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Trump's staffers reportedly write his tweets with deliberate grammatical errors
Trump's tweets are sometimes written by staffers — not that you can tell. Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images

It's been long suspected that Trump doesn't write all his tweets.

Some are penned by White House staffers, and according to a Boston Globe report, these tweets are composed with grammatical errors and irregularities, intentionally included to sound like they're written by Trump.

This comes from two sources at the White House who spoke to the newspaper, both of whom said staffers would copy Trump's expression.

That includes the overuse of exclamation points, the capitalization of words for emphasis, fragments, and loosely connected ideas. While grammatical errors are present, staffers reportedly didn't intentionally misspell words or names.

A bot created by The Atlantic's Andrew McGill, dubbed Trump or Not, uses machine learning to predict whether if a tweet has been penned by the president or not.

Trump's tweet praising Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson was deemed to have a 96 percent chance of being written by the man himself.

While another tweet praising First Lady Melania Trump for her return to the White House only got a score of 25 percent.

The sources wouldn't reveal to the newspaper which tweets were really written by Trump, and which ones were by a staffer.

As noted by the Globe, Trump's social media process is far more direct in comparison to president candidate Mitt Romney, who required 22 people to sign off on a tweet.

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