Donald Trump shares awkward autocorrect mistake that almost got him in trouble with Melania

Apparently, even the President of the United States can't escape an awkward autocorrect blunder.

Donald Trump revealed that he got 'absolutely decimated' for an unexpected error that came while texting and posting about his wife, First Lady Melania.

The 79-year-old Republican has been married to the 56-year-old since 2005, and the political couple shares one son together, Barron, 20.

But, despite being in charge of the whole country, it seems that they do squabble like the rest of us.

At one point or another, we've all been a victim of autocorrect - and calling your partner by the wrong name is hilariously one of the worst offences, prompting all sorts of cheating and ex questions.

At an event for Military Mothers alongside the First Lady on Wednesday (6 May), the Commander-in-Chief was talking about a woman named Melody Wolff when the name took Trump off into a bizarre and random story.

He shared that his autocorrect issue also became a problem in social media posts, prompting scrutiny from the public.

In a video shared by Fox News, he recalled: "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, they used to be called Tweets.

"Every time I wrote Melania, it would correct to Melody."

Trump admitted: "I do think I work very fast and I'd talk about her, say and I'd say 'Melania is fantastic' and 'happy Mother's Day Melania our great first lady, Melania.'

"But it would spell correct and word correct to 'Melody.' And sometimes I wouldn't proofread it, and I would get just absolutely decimated. These people would decimate me."

The crowd laughed as the President continued: "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, but I got that corrected eventually."

And you'll never guess who Trump enlisted to solve his tech troubles - the US military. Yes, really.

The US President revealed he enlisted the help of the military to fix the autocorrect setting (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

He told the crowd, "You know who corrected it? The military. I said 'Come here, you gotta correct this, you're killing me. I took more abuse.' She's been called Melody a lot."

Reacting to the admission on social media, one X user wrote: "He has the military fixing autocorrect for him? Because he can’t be bothered to proofread Melania’s name? What a waste of our money."

While a second questioned: "It took the military to click autocorrect off??"

And a third sarcastically wrote: "What an incredible use of our taxpayers' dollars and our military."

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