There’s no denying that Cher is an icon. She’s had a career spanning over 50 years and pumped out more chart-topping hits than you can poke a stick at. However, at 73 years old (!!) Cher isn’t quite as well-versed in social media.
Case in point: one of her most recent Twitter pics.
Cher took to Twitter yesterday to make her feelings about Donald Trump, writing, “I believe it was Trump and his flying monkeys who destroyed Iowa. Not kidding. Trump is about to show you evil we never knew existed.”
Along with her feisty caption Cher shared the same three pics of flying monkeys – however they were posted as screenshots of her phone in gallery mode.
At the bottom of the pic, you can see a few of Cher’s other gallery items including more pictures of flying monkeys, a photo of herself, and strangely, one of Britney Spears from a photoshoot she did in 2001.
But why!?
It’s not the first time Cher has totally cooked it on social media. In 2016, she commented on the terrorist attack at Ataturk Airport by tweeting, “WE ALL PRAY FOR INNOCENT PPL IN TURKEY AIRPORT” with the bomb and explosion emojis.
Cher apologised for her insensitive emoji use in a following tweet, which read: “Been thinking about my poorly placed, insensitively timed bomb emoji. No excuse. I’m used to using emoji to help say more than 140 letters. Sorry.”
Yikes.
Cher isn’t the only celeb who has been left red faced after a serious social media blunder. In 2015, Mia Farrow wished her daughter Quincy a happy birthday on Twitter using a screenshotted photo of her – unfortunately, she forgot to crop out the search term “mia farrow and her black children.”
Double yikes.
It’s not even an age thing, either. In 2014, Rita Ora claimed her Twitter account was “hacked” after she failed to get 100,000 retweets on a post teasing an early release of new music.
Ora tweeted, “dropping my new song monday if this get 100,000 retweets.” After the tweet only racked up 964 retweets, the singer quickly took to Twitter to clear things up. She posted, “by the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I’ve worked on. Nothing comes out until I’m ready.”
Sadly, Ora’s fans weren’t buying the ‘hacker’ story and made it very known they thought she was lying to cover up her lack of traction.
Let the above be a lesson to always double check what you’re posting before you post.