Library of Congress store removes Trump poster ad with typo

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President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn at the White House in February. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

WASHINGTON — An online listing for inauguration poster of President Donald Trump that included a misspelling in a quote has been removed from the online store of the Library of Congress.

The poster ad shows Trump’s quote but includes a typo: “No dream is too big, no challenge is to great. Nothing we want for the future is beyond our reach.” The phrase should be “too great.”

Twitter users quickly spotted the error over the weekend and the item was removed. An archived version of the listing is accessible through the Internet Archive website.

A poster with a typographical error in a quotation from President Donald Trump has been removed from the online web store of the Library of Congress. | Screen grab of online listing

A poster with a typographical error in a quotation from President Donald Trump has been removed from the online web store of the Library of Congress. | Screen grab of online listing

The marketing materials for the poster came from a third party vendor and the Library regrets not catching the mistake, said Library spokeswoman Gayle Osterburg.

“The item itself does not contain the error,” she said.

It’s at least the third high-profile spelling error from the government of late. The Education Department misspelled the name of W.E.B. DuBois on Twitter Sunday and mistyped again when apologizing for the error.

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