The Washington PostDemocracy Dies in Darkness

Trump mistakenly tweeted that the country needs ‘to heel.’ The Internet gave him hell.

August 20, 2017 at 2:50 p.m. EDT
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Showing what would happen if your computer’s spell check became sentient and snarkily judgmental, whoever runs Merriam-Webster’s Twitter account has taken President Trump to task for a social media spelling error. Again.

It started sometime after 4 p.m. Saturday, at the end of a mostly peaceful protest in Boston, where most demonstrators rallied against hate.