“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 on Twitter. He’s since deleted the misspelled tweet.
Posted on 12/17/2016 7:28:19 AM PST by COUNTrecount
The seizing of an unmanned US Navy drone by the Chinese is an “unpresidented [sic] act,” President-elect Donald Trump tweeted early Saturday.
The USNS Bowditch, which has a civilian crew, was about to retrieve the underwater device Thursday when it was snapped up by a Chinese warship 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 on Twitter. He’s since deleted the misspelled tweet.
The $150,000, 10-foot drone was part of a scientific mission collecting oceanographic data. It’s the first time in recent history China has taken a US naval vessel, a Navy spokesman said.
Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the seizure of the drone occurred inside the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines and appeared to be a violation of international law.
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“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 on Twitter. He’s since deleted the misspelled tweet.
Probably, the TWITTER idea of doing international diplomacy is not going to work for DJT. He might need to use more covert, secretive and non confrontational means rather than embarrass a nation and provoke an incident. It isn’t like callling women fat and ugly. This is serious.
advice to trump: turn off spell checker.
if i had a nickel for every time the spell checker got away from me, i would be as rich as he is... (or maybe not)
Trump will undoubtedly find a way to even the score.
As if I didn't know.
Unpresidented = we didn’t have a President to stop getting our asses handed to us.
So it was an unpresidented act.
Just like the last 8 years!
They’ve shot so many of their bolts that they are now reduced to the spelling and grammar police. But Trump is no Dan Quail.
Obama can talk about 57 states and the liberal media calls him a genius. Trump mistypes a word and it’s an impeachable offense.
Someone will post a picture of Obama and Hillary in Mao suits with the word Unpresidented on it.
Ping him and tell him he should blame the misspelling on Russian hackers.
We’ve been unpresidented since Usurpation Day.
I plan to get my flag out at noon on January 20th once we have a legitimate President again.
Pronouncing corpsman as ‘corpsemen’ was pretty unpresidented as well.
It so obvious it’s a play on words. Those that don’t get it are either stupid or willfully participating in propaganda.
The GIANT SUCKING SOUND is about to be heard from AMERICA as American companies pull out of CHINA and return to the motherland.
Push the Self Destruct button
Trump misspelling a word shows that he is ill educated.
Dorkbamathe Muslim eunuch saying “...all wee-wee’d up...” Shows his untellect. Yes, Untellect.
Shove it, MSM.
Right. I wonder if any Navy Corpsemen were lost in the drone seizure?
Oh no, Omg, Ooh
Where is your brain? The Chinese “provoked” the incident by their act. It is long past time they are told off and their efforts to own us curtailed! Obama has been letting them get away with anything and everything. What China can’t steal it buys.
EXACTLY right,that’s Trump’s message.
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