Overview
- Trump, speaking at a White House Military Mother's Day event on Wednesday, described a phone autocorrect that he said kept changing his wife's name to “Melody,” and a clip of the remarks went viral on X.
- He told the audience he types fast, did not always proofread posts, and he ended the story by apologizing to First Lady Melania Trump from the podium.
- Trump said he eventually “got that corrected” with help from “the military,” though outlets have not independently verified that any military personnel fixed a personal phone setting.
- The episode links back to a 2018 post in which he wrote “Melanie” instead of “Melania,” a message he later deleted and reposted with the correct spelling.
- Reactions ranged from laughter in the room to online skepticism, with commentators noting that adding a name to contacts can stop autocorrect and citing past doubts that Twitter or X would change “Melania” to another name.