Trump mocks pols who mispronounce 'Nevada,' then does it himself He says it is important to get it right even as he gets it wrong.

RENO, Nevada — Donald Trump mocked politicians during a rally here Wednesday night for mispronouncing “Nevada” — while he was mispronouncing it himself.

In accentuating what he thought to be the correct pronunciation — a tangential riff ad-libbed into a comment about the state’s drug problem — he was actually saying it incorrectly.


“Heroin overdoses are surging. In fact, overdoses in Nevada — Neh-VAHH-da," he said, drawing out the middle syllable as he alighted on the tangent.

“You know what I said? You know what I said? I said when I came out here, I said, ‘Nobody says it the other way, it has to be Neh-VAHH-da.'”

The 3,000 supporters in the room didn’t correct him. They just cheered.

“But if you don’t say it correctly — it happened to a friend of mine, he was killed,” Trump said before returning to the teleprompter. “Drug overdoses, in Neh-VAHH-da, are up 22 percent.”

The correct way to pronounce the name of this swing state, where the three most recent polls have shown Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump, is “Neh-VAD-uh.”

Trump first mangled the pronunciation in February during his victory speech after the South Carolina primary. In a recent get-out-the-vote video, his daughter Ivanka Trump did so, too.

