Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that the military once helped him fix an autocorrect issue on his phone that repeatedly changed his wife Melania Trump's name to 'Melody.' Speaking during an event honoring military mothers, Trump launched into an extended tangent after reading out the name of one attendee called Melody.
'I love the name Melody because for a long time, you know, they have spell correct and word correct on these crazy machines that we use to put out Truths, or they used to be called tweets,' he began. Trump asserted that 'every time I wrote Melania, it would be corrected to Melody.' He did not, however, cite any specific posts where the apparent autocorrect error occurred. He did, though, once refer to her as 'Melanie' in a post.
'So I do think, and I work very fast, very fast, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I talk about it, and I say, And Melania is fantastic and happy Mother's Day, Melania, our great first lady, Melania, but it would spell correct and word correct to Melody,' Trump continued. He added: 'And sometimes I wouldn't proofread it, and I'd say, hmm, and I would get just absolutely decimated. These people would decimate. They said, He didn't know the name of his wife. He keeps calling her… And I said, What the hell is wrong with this machine?'
'I didn't know about that little feature,' he claimed. 'I got that corrected eventually,' Trump added. 'You know who corrected? The military. I said, Come here. You got to correct this. You're killing me.' He claimed that 'She's been called Melody a lot. Anyway, I had to explain it to you this way. I stood up here to explain it to you. I apologize.'
