WH Misspells Theresa May’s Name Thrice in Schedule for Visit with Trump
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The White House misspelled Theresa May's name three times in an official schedule of her visit to the US, even as the Prime Minister talked up the "special relationship" in a speech at the Republican Retreat.
Staff in Donald Trump's administration missed out the 'h' in her name in a document setting out the plan for talks on Friday, including a "bilateral meeting" in the Oval Office and a "working luncheon" following a joint press conference.
The mistake was later corrected, it was reported. Teresa May is the name of a former model and actress.
'Teresa' is also the Spanish variant of May's name.
At a presidential debate in California in 2015 Trump told Jeb Bush, whose wife was born in Mexico, that "this is a country where we speak English, not Spanish".
In fact, the US is the world's second-largest Spanish-speaking country after Mexico - even ahead of Spain, with 41 million native Spanish speakers, plus another 11.6 million who are bilingual.
Much of the US is territory gained from Mexico in the mid-19th century.
May used her speech to warn Trump and his party to "beware" of Vladimir Putin.
Invoking the spirit of the Cold War, she called on the US and the UK to engage with the Kremlin "from a position of strength" and warned about the possible "eclipse of the West" if they failed.
But the PM also said the days in which the West seek to "remake the world in our own image are over", citing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and leaving others to remember David Cameron's ill-fated foray into Libya.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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