One of the leading American newspapers appeared to confuse the identities of football player Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson and former President Donald Trump in an obituary for the former, sparking mirth across social media.
The recent passing of the controversial football legend and actor O.J. Simpson has been a major topic in news outlets across the United States. However, it seems that the Los Angeles Times had another prominent figure on its mind while writing Simpson’s obituary: former President Donald Trump.
In an obituary posted by the LA Times, there was a notable error where Trump was mistakenly named as the individual who left Lovelock Correctional Facility after incarceration in 2017, instead of Simpson. This mistake was highlighted in an archived version of the report.
While the obituary only uses the surname “Trump,” most readers have assumed that the typo refers to Donald Trump, the former President of the United States, as opposed to other individuals with that surname, such as his father Fred Trump, a prominent New York real estate tycoon who battled Robert Moses for the future of Coney Island, or Donald L. Trump, a Virginia-based oncologist with no relation to the presumptive Republican nominee.
LA Times with quite the typo in its obituary for OJ Simpson pic.twitter.com/s4RXDN4znF
— Dan Berger (@dnbrgr) April 11, 2024
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