Pentagon retweets post demanding Trump step down

The Defense Department admitted Thursday that its press operation had “erroneously” retweeted a message calling for the resignations of President Donald Trump and Senator Al Franken.

The tweet was quickly un-retweeted, but not before being noticed by Twitter users that follow the Pentagon account.

One of the people operating the DoD’s Twitter account was at fault according to a quick explanation issued by the Pentagon.

It’s impossible to know exactly how the operator “erroneously” retweeted a militant anti-Trump account, but an educated guess might be that the person follows Proud Resister on their personal Twitter account, uses something like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to manage multiple accounts and accidentally retweeted from their personal account to the DoD account (yes, that can happen.) The DoD’s chief spokesperson is a civilian, Ms. Dana White, and the “operator” may also be non-military and therefore explain the lack of attention to detail and disregard for the commander-in-chief. Ms. White also served on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign team.