Life is tough on Twitter when you share a name with someone in Trump's administration

The Twitter accounts belonging to members of Trump's administration receive a lot of attention, and rightfully so — Trump has proven time and again Twitter is his preferred medium for communicating just about everything.

But what about the unfortunate souls who just happen to share the same names as members of the Trump team? Innocent Twitter users who are just trying to enjoy the social media platform in peace?

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We spoke to a number of people with a famous (or infamous) namesake, and discovered they each react to their unintentional fame differently. 

John Kelly

First up we have John Kelly, who is Trump's new chief of staff following Priebus' recent resignation — but also a Washington Post columnist. 

The other John Kelly started his Twitter account in 2008, and was "delighted" to be the first John Kelly on Twitter, he said. (Chief of Staff John Kelly is actually not on Twitter if you can believe it.) 

"There are a lot of John Kellys in the world," Kelly revealed. "We're sometimes confused with one another on Twitter." 

Besides Washington Post John Kelly and Chief of Staff John Kelly, there is also an Irish novelist named John Kelly and a data scientist named John Kelly. 

"I'm a journalist so I try to keep my views to myself," Kelly added. "But just because of the jobs we do, White House John Kelly and Washington Post John Kelly are very different." 

This stark difference between the two John Kellys doesn't keep our Kelly from having a bit of fun when he's hit with a case of mistaken identity. However, he can also find himself at the receiving end of a fair amount of online ire.

"Many of [the people tweeting at me] are quite worked up, either overwhelmed with extreme love for the other John Kelly or overwhelmed with extreme hatred," Kelly said. "Settle down, people. You’re not going to fix the world in 140 characters."

Amen to that.

Kelly had to clarify his identity in July with a series of tweets: 

Unfortunately, his clarification did not do much to quell the tweets and mentions he received, and he had this to say after Scaramucci's sudden ousting: 

"What this whole mistaken Twitter thing has taught me is that people need to slow down. They shouldn’t be so quick to judge – and they definitely shouldn’t be so quick to tag," Kelly said. 

"Do they really think the White House Chief of Staff would have a Twitter photo of a guy sitting at a vintage Ludwig drum set?"

Stephen Miller 

Next, we have @redsteeze — aka Stephen Miller. He's not Trump's senior advisor Stephen Miller, though he is a contributor at Fox News.  

While tweets like the one above make it seem like Fox News Stephen Miller somewhat relishes sharing a name with the infamous White House staffer, he did have some choice words for his namesake after writer Bret Easton Ellis said he wanted to write a novel about the other Miller.

Fox's Stephen Miller also had this to say when Ann Coulter suggested White House Stephen Miller be cloned and appointed to every cabinet position:

It's safe to assume that this Stephen Miller has no plans to become a part of Trump's White House any time soon:

Steve Bannon

Sigh. Poor Steve Bannon. No, not that Steve Bannon, we're talking about @SteveBannon, the Scotsman who just wants to spend time with his wife and kids ...

... but has to deal with this kind of thing: 

Ugh.

White House Steve Bannon is one of the most controversial members of Trump's team so, naturally, innocent Steve Bannon often receives some of the nastiest Twitter vitriol. The hate became so intense, in fact, that he decided to try capitalizing on his misfortune by using the attention to crowdfund a new set of golf clubs for his daughter. 

"In the last 24 hours I have been receiving abusive tweets in a case of mistaken identity," the crowdfunding description, which was written in August of last year, read. "Donald Trump has appointed a man called Steve Bannon to help run his presidential campaign. My Twitter tag is @stevebannon and this is where the abuse is being directed."

Steve Bannon went on to explain that he's just a working class Scot living in England with his wife and three girls. His middle daughter Olivia is a strong golfer, but she needs a new set of clubs to advance her career. 

"Please make a donation towards Olivia's clubs if you have posted abuse on my twitter feed," the crowdfunding campaign said. "One day you might see her on tour."

We hope we do see her on tour someday, Steve. We really hope we do. 

Mike Pence 

Everyone knows Vice President Mike Pence, @mike_pence, but there's also @mikepence — a progressive, atheist software developer living in Sarasota, Florida. 

In many ways, software developer Mike Pence is the very antithesis of the vice president. 

"Having been raised a Jehovah's Witness, [I have] a healthy aversion to Orwellian thought-control cults of any political or religious origin," Pence said in a Washington Post column. 

"Sometimes you don’t value a thing until you have lost it," Pence continued. "And when people suddenly associate your name with someone you personally find to be a monster."

Pence has been an outspoken critic of his namesake and of the administration to which he belongs:

His Twitter bio even reads "Software developer, grandpa and nature lover. Not a Christo-fascist politician."

Though Pence could do without the barrage of ugly notifications directed at him by mistake, he said he also views his situation as an opportunity, due to the large audience he has amassed. 

"There will come a day to explain all of this to my now year-and-a-half-old grandson," he said in the column. "How could I say anything to him except that I proudly put my fist in the air and proclaimed that I am not that Mike Pence, but I am the other Mike Pence, the one who values freedom and civil rights for all?"

Eric Trump

Finally, we have Eric Trump, one of the president's creepy sons, and also an entirely different person who is a teacher from Surrey in the UK. 

"I joined Twitter in February of 2015," UK Trump said. "At the time Donald Trump was known in the UK for his golf courses and reality TV appearances but no one had heard of his son Eric."

That blissful ignorance did not last long, and once Trump launched his presidential campaign, UK Eric Trump began receiving some unwanted attention.

"Despite my Twitter bio clearly stating that I am not Donald's son, I regularly get people following me thinking that they are following the son of the POTUS," Trump said. "Sometimes I block them straight away and sometimes, out of curiosity, I wait to see how many of my tweets (mainly about Fulham football club and pictures of loaves of bread I have baked) it takes before they realize that they have got the wrong guy."

You'd think these tweets would do the trick:

His strategy has apparently not worked. 

"Trump has never been a great surname for me (in the UK 'trump' is a synonym for 'fart', especially in northern parts of the country) but the rise of Donald has taken things to a new level," he said.

"In Las Vegas it was suggested I should be checking into Dad's place further along the strip so I indicated that I was there to check out the opposition. I hope no one spat in our food on that trip."

To make things even worse for poor UK Eric Trump, he can't partake in the fun of Googling his own name, because all that comes up are pictures of White House Eric Trump posing with the latest wild animal he has shot.

"Maybe if your research uncovers more Eric Trumps we could form some kind of self help group?" Trump suggested.

Take solace in the fact you're in good company, Eric Trump. Godspeed, Twitter users.

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