http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/01/donald-trump-spelled-heal-wrong-again-in-a-tweet/
President Donald Trump was mocked on Twitter early Friday for misspelling “heal” as “heel,” the second time in two weeks Trump has made the error online.
“Texas is heeling [sic] fast thanks to all of the great men & women who have been working so hard. But still, so much to do. Will be back tomorrow!” Trump wrote at 7:50 a.m. ET on Friday, addressing Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. The tweet was later deleted.
Twitter users and media members were quick to mock the president for his mistake.
Appearing dumb to elicit an elitist response from Democrats is a pretty old Republican game. Not that Trump needs to play too hard at it, but still. Seriously, there are tons of Americans out there who get by just fine without spelling very well, and they may just be a little sensitive on that matter, and when the Democrats play “cultural partisan elite”, it hardly helps matters. That’s kinda how Bush effectively won the debate with Gore by getting demolished a little too severely. It’s verbal rope-a-dope – they expend far less effort misspeaking than their opponents do correcting them. Can you imagine what would happen if Democrats insisted Republicans get the name of their party right every single time they said it wrong? That’s exactly why Republican politicians and operatives still almost universally get it so consistently wrong after so many decades. It’s a messaging mandate from the party. The focus on style rather than substance aids their cause. The fact that they sound stupid isn’t politically relevant – it’s even a net positive.