Trump's Twitter fail as he tried to endorse Republican Congressman who had been slammed for making a video from Auschwitz's gas chambers - and tagged the wrong user instead
By Jessa Schroeder
Daily Mail
June 25, 2018
President Donald Trump on Sunday attempted to endorse US Representative Clay Higgins for re-election, but accidentally tagged a young man on Twitter who shares the same name as the Louisiana politician.
Trump took to social media to initially write: '@ClayHiggins18 has been a great help to me on cutting taxes, creating new healthcare programs at low cost, fighting for border security, our military and our vets.
'He is tough on crime and has my full endorsement. The great state of Louisiana, we want Clay!'
Roughly two hours after sending out the tweet, Trump deleted the status and and re-posted the celebratory tweet under the correct username of the controversial conservative.
The US representative followed up with comment to Trump's first tweet writing: 'Thank you Mr. President!'
Trump had tagged another Clay Higgins who had 111 followers and a private account before he gained attention. He also updated his profile photo.
Later on Sunday night, the young man set his account to public after he received a slew of user comments reacting to Trump's mistake.
Twitter users said things like: 'I am pretty sure that Clay Higgins would do a better job than grown-up Clay Higgins and 'IQ45 tweeted the wrong Clay Higgins, the incompetence is beyond staggering.' One even corrected the president's spelling.
The young man did not respond to DailyMail.com when asked to make comment about the matter.
It seems the Sunday incident wasn't the first time the young man was mistaken for the politician.
Last July, the young Higgins re-tweeted several posts that were accidentally aimed at him after the congressman's narration of a five-minute video inside a former gas chamber at the Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland.
The representative posted the video in which in said the killings lasted 20 minutes and show why the US military 'must be invincible'.
A few days later, the Auschwitz Memorial publicly chastised Higgins for violating the rules requiring visitors to remain silent while inside the former gas chambers.
Officials later posted a photo of the entrance sign to that building, asking visitors to 'maintain silence here'.
The sign further read: 'You are in a building where the SS murdered thousands of people.
'Please maintain silence here: remember their suffering and show respect for their memory.'
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