Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation -<br />By MATT FLEGENHEIMERMAY 31, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — And on the 132nd day, just after midnight, President Trump had at last delivered<br />the nation to something approaching unity — in bewilderment, if nothing else.<br />“That is his final tweet & the rest of history stops.”<br />Some appeared to temper their whimsy as a more sobering news story dominated the medium:<br />a huge explosion shaking Kabul, Afghanistan, leaving dozens dead or wounded.<br />“Of course #covfefe is real word,” wrote @Diane_7A, recalling an invented tragedy once invoked by the Trump White House.<br />They announced they had at last discovered what Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of “Lost in Translation.”<br />And as the hour wore on, stragglers turned their lonely eyes to the only account that could save them.<br />“It was coined during the Bowling Green Massacre.”<br />“What if this is it,” asked Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker television critic, after just five minutes.<br />“Help, @MerriamWebster,” pleaded Jessica Taylor, a reporter at NPR, one of several to make the request.<br />“Covfefe,” said Tasneem Raja, a journalist, perhaps chafing at the growing communal giddiness.<br />Perhaps, some worried aloud, Mr. Trump had experienced a medical episode a quarter of the way through his 140 characters.
