Posted on 12/17/2016 6:09:20 AM PST by Pinkbell
Donald Trump is still a month away from the White House, but the president-elect is only ramping up his rhetoric against China.
Trump took to Twitter on early Saturday morning to lash out at the country for seizing a US Navy drone two days ago in the South China Sea.
'China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act,' Trump wrote in a misspelled tweet.
Trump's criticism came just hours after a Chinese official said the country was in talks with the American military for a 'smooth resolution' over the drone. The capture - the first of its kind in recent memory - took place on December 15 just as the USNS Bowditch, an American oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve the unmanned underwater glider.
US officials issued a formal diplomatic complaint over the seizure and demanded the return of the $150,000 drone, which was collecting unclassified scientific data.
'It is ours. It's clearly marked as ours,' Navy Capt Jeff Davis said on Friday.
'We would like it back, and we would like this not to happen again.'
China said Saturday that its military was in contact with its American counterparts on 'appropriately handling' the seizure, one of the most serious incidents between the two militaries in years.
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Conspiracy theory: Could Trump have deliberately spelled it that way as a knock on Obama? Although, he and Obama seem to be getting along pretty well.
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Really?
Getting along well?
Obama’s biggish wife with male genitalia accuses Trump of causing hopelessness...
I dont think its a misspelling.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I know its not a misspeiling. The Donald is a genius.
Yeah, Donald Trump is a big dummy. The same big dummy who routed the entire political establishment.
OMG, we must get rid of Trump. He misspelled a word!
Something about that picture makes me think of Clint Eastwood.
Why do you think the US Navy needs temperature and salinity data from the South China Sea?
Let he who is without typos cast the first stone.
As well it should.....
Empty suit empty chair. Sounds about right.
Thanks for the correction!
Two answers:
1) They don't, and that's not what the buoys/drones are collecting, or
2) NOAA collects comprehensive oceanographic data all over the world, to track El Nino, or global warming, or fishery-affecting pollution.
The real answer, of course, is that I don't know, and nobody is telling us.
Trump is a master of getting free media coverage.
Perhaps Trump knew that having a misspelling would result in heavy media coverage, where the "intelligentsia" mock him for not spelling a word correctly, while regular people ponder what Trump has to say.
Trump is in trouble now - the GRAMMAR POLICE will issue a warrant and the call for impeachment for misspelling a word in a tweet.
Empty chair and empty suit.
Wonder if he is wearing a hat?
57 states
Marine CORPSE
Speak Austrian
A complete embargo on all container ships form China until the drone is returned. That is what they are afraid of, economic warfare.
Misspellings are the bane of all internet trolls. he needs to have a messaging team review his tweets before they go out. perhaps he’ll understand that after a few days of being counter-trolled over this.
Stuff it Daily Mail, you tabloid rag. As this rag would have made a headline out of a typo by Barry “57-State” Obama
I know because I was an ASW(think sonar) officer in the Navy.
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