“How would you spell that? L-Y-E-N, with a big apostrophe,” said Donald Trump, a man who is dangerously close to leading a country of 300 million.

The Republican presidential candidate made the error at a Wichita, Kansas—the same event which was advertised with a press release that misspelt both the words “Wichita” and “Kansas.” Trump himself fired off a tweet that was, characteristically, misspelled.

It’s not the first time the Trump campaign has misspelt the state he’s speaking in, either.

How, in this day in age, with the wondrous and easy-to-use technology of spell check, does this happen? Better question: how, in this day and age, with the illuminating power of higher education and human enlightenment, does Donald Trump happen?


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