Tickets for Tonight’s State of the Union Address Contain an Embarrassing Typo

The tickets for guests and lawmakers’ spouses attending today’s State of the Union Address contained a rather glaring spelling error: “State of the Uniom.”

As the New York Times was quick to point out, “President Trump is famously spelling-challenged, but this one was not his fault.”

Indeed, Trump has made his fair share of spelling errors while shooting from the hip on his infamous medium of choice, Twitter. (Covfefe, anyone?) This time, though, it was the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper that accepted responsibility for the error, reissuing the tickets on Monday just in time for the event.

Democratic Representative Raúl M. Grijalva used the mistake to get in a dig at Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who was roasted last year when she misspelled W. E. B. Dubois.

Late Night host Stephen Colbert used the error to ponder whether perhaps the ticket contained a different error:

As one tweeter aptly pointed out, perhaps the real story here is the fact that the tickets look like something you could print out at home:

The Times also points out that the ticket contains a second error: the State of the Union takes place in the “Visitors Gallery,” not the “Visitor’s Gallery.” No word on whether that second correction made it onto the final tickets, or if the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper decided to upgrade to the fancy paper.

(Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

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