'You guys, I'm like really smart': Official US Army Twitter account 'likes' Mindy Kaling tweet mocking Trump as sounding like The Office's Kelly Kapoor

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The Army 'liked' the tweet in error, and has since 'unliked' it

The official Army Twitter account has 'liked' a tweet by Mindy Kaling mocking President Donald Trump by comparing him to her character Kelly Kapoor from The Office.

Kaling shared her riposte on Saturday, showing air-head Kapoor saying 'You guys, I'm like really smart now, you don't even know,' in parody of Trump's remarks on Twitter earlier in the day. 

The Army has now 'unliked' Kaling's tweet, and said that the 'like' had been in error.

'An operator of the Army's official Twitter account inadvertently 'liked' a tweet whose content would not be endorsed by the Department of the Army,' an Army spokesperson told The Hill.

'As soon as it was brought to our attention, it was immediately corrected,' the spokesman said.

'Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,' Trump tweeted on Saturday, drawing widespread ridicule

Hours later, Kaling shared her riposte on Saturday in parody of Trump's remarks

Kaling, seen as the air-head customer service rep Kelly Kapoor in The Office, compared Trump's boast that he is 'like, really smart' to a similar line from her character

Trump's remarks were in response to questions about his mental fitness raised in a new book by Michael Wolff, which is filled with anecdotes and gossip about hijinks in the West Wing. 

'Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,' Trump tweeted. 'I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!' 

Kaling's tweet quotes a line her character delivered in the season seven premiere of The Office, after Kapoor returns to Scranton from a minority executive training program.

'You guys, I'm like really smart now, you don't even know,' Kapoor says. 

'You could ask me, "Kelly, what's the biggest company in the world?" and I'd be like blah blah blah blah blah, giving you the EXACT right answer.' 

Kaling, seen in September, went on from The Office to star in The Mindy Project

Trump's remarks, which he may have phrased vacuously as an intentional jab at his critics, have drawn derision from other celebrities as well.

On Sunday, actor Ben Stiller made a recording reading his tweets in character as the vapid male model Derek Zoolander.

'I wish he had said 'like, really, really smart,' Stiller told the Daily Beast in an email. 

The Army incident isn't the first time a high-profile account's 'likes' have stirred controversy.

In September, Senator Ted Cruz landed in hot water after his official account clicked like on a tweet featuring a hardcore pornographic video.

Cruz said that a staffer had accidentally liked the tweet.