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Trump Just Humiliated Himself By Calling Yosemite National Park ‘Yo-Semites’ and Everyone is Laughing at Him

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Let’s be honest here, Donald Trump isn’t the best reader.

He’s also not very good at typing, spelling, and often writes in ALL CAPS using a giant Sharpie marker. While we as a nation have grown somewhat used to his embarrassing linguistic shortcomings, he still managed to surprise people on Tuesday while signing The Great American Outdoors Act.

In a poetic sentence he clearly did not write, Trump started listing off some of America’s most famous National Parks.

“When young Americans experience the breathtaking beauty of the Grand Canyon, when their eyes widen in amazement as Old Faithful bursts into the sky, when they gaze upon Yosemite’s towering sequoias…”

But when Trump pronounced “Yosemite’s” he did not say “Yo-sem-it-ees.” Instead he said Yo-semites.” Realizing his mistake, Trump tried again, but this time it sounded more like “Yo-sem-in-ites”

Yikes!

It, naturally, has prompted a lot of riffing on Twitter, with people making various version of the same “Yo, Semites!” and “Yo! -Semites” jokes.

And of course, “Yo Semites” is trending on Twitter.

Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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