In March of 2024, actor Mark Hamill compiled a greatest hits list of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump’s misspellings, mispronunciations, and utterly made-up words.

On Sunday, August 17, Trump added a new word to the list when he took to Truth Social and posted just one four-letter non-word:

“Bela”

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People are likening it to another profound Trump post from May 2017, when he took to Twitter to state:

“Despite the constant negative press covfefe”

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People speculated on what Trump meant.

Some got… pretty intense.

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Others just soundly mocked Trump.

With perhaps none more soundly than California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s Press Office.

“DONALD (TINY HANDS), HAS WRITTEN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY THIS MORNING — UNFORTUNATELY (LOW IQ) HE SPELLED IT WRONG — ‘BETA’, the press office wrote on X. ‘SOON YOU WILL BE A “FIRED” BETA BECAUSE OF MY PERFECT, ‘BEAUTIFUL MAPS’. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN.”

Trump’s defenders on Truth Social claim the MAGA leader meant to type the country “Belarus.” Others thought it was a planned reference to South Africa’s reportedly controversial Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA).

Trump reposted one such claim, but never clarified nor deleted his own four-letter post.