By Vikas Shukla. Originally published at ValueWalk.
Donald Trump has about 31 million followers on Twitter. The US President certainly knows how to get the attention of every single one of them as well as millions of others on the Internet. When he posted a late night tweet, the Internet went crazy. It was an incomplete sentence containing the word “covfefe.” Neither the tweet nor the word makes any sense. But it’s easy to figure out that he was targeting the media, probably the “Fake News media.”
What the hell is ‘covfefe’, the world wonders
At 12:06 a.m. ET on Wednesday, President Donald Trump tweeted “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” Yeah, that’s it. Nothing more. What further confused his followers was that he left the sentence midway, and the tweet had been live for hours. Was there no one in the White House to point it out? Anyway, folks on Twitter are having a good time trying to figure out the meaning of “covfefe.”
Before Trump woke up and deleted the tweet, it had garnered more than 130,000 likes and 108,000 retweets. it became one of the most popular tweet Trump had ever posted. He deleted the tweet at 5:50 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Less than 20 minutes later, he sent out another tweet challenging the world to figure out the “true meaning” of the word he had just coined.
Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
Challenge accepted!
Though the word “covfefe” was most likely a typo for “coverage,” Twitter users drew their own conclusions about its meaning and what Trump intended to say.
that was the moment Trump became prsiduvhirw pic.twitter.com/fKVPPNVFH0
— Anthony Brian Smith (@AnthonyBLSmith) May 31, 2017
I was about to go to bed but I guess i have to stare at this covfefe tweet until it goes away now
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) May 31, 2017
Wakes up.
Checks Twitter.
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Uh…
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Regrets checking Twitter.
Goes back to bed.— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) May 31, 2017
Congratulations Kathy Griffin. No one cares about you anymore. We have #covfefe now.
— Erik Brooks (@ChipBrooks17) May 31, 2017
Heck, even the domain name covfefe.com was purchased by someone immediately after Trump’s tweet:
Goddamit. Someone already bought #Covfefe.com. Probably the Russians. pic.twitter.com/duRrtb41PO
— Kristina Wong ?? (@mskristinawong) May 31, 2017
I think #Covfefe is Russian for “Take Jared and spare me.” pic.twitter.com/pDpjqX0Cyg
— Kristina Wong ?? (@mskristinawong) May 31, 2017
I like to imagine that “covfefe” is the exact moment someone tackled Trump and wrestled the phone out of his hand. https://t.co/96MAwttvdL
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) May 31, 2017
Finally figured out what Bill Murray whispered in Scarlett Johansson’s ear at the end of “Lost in Translation” #covfefe pic.twitter.com/fDFJUYlEz8
— Jordan VanDina (@Shrimptooth) May 31, 2017
what makes me saddest is that I know I’ll never write anything funnier than #covfefe
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 31, 2017
My dad just bought the CA license plate “COVFEFE.” #covfefe pic.twitter.com/WT5bXDTRN3
— Talya Cooper (@talicoop) May 31, 2017
This one is epic:
Y’all are so quick. #covfefe pic.twitter.com/j832rTmi9Y
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 31, 2017
And then someone thought we’d need the help of aliens to figure out the true meaning of covfefe:
okay this is the best I’ve got #covfefe pic.twitter.com/CAD8UrP9hI
— Jackson Dame (@jacksondame) May 31, 2017
Google translate thinks covfefe is Samoan for covfefe. #covfefe
— covfefe (@scmgraphic) May 31, 2017
I was legit going to bed an hour ago but then #covfefe happened ?
— Samia Khan (@SamiaKhan) May 31, 2017
This user thinks covfefe is the best thing to have happened under Trump presidency:
This hashtag is probably the best thing we’ve gotten out of the Trump presidency so far. #Covfefe pic.twitter.com/Jcr9GoVdZk
— Rachel 2 (@TheLastMerlin) May 31, 2017
Have a headache & I’m bloated. Gonna check WebMD hope its not #Covfefe ?
— The Xoch (@ms_soulteroh) May 31, 2017
Trump used an iPhone to tweet the covfefe post
Donald Trump has used both the iPhone and Android devices in the past. The covfefe tweet was posted from an iPhone. Axios reported last week that the US President was currently using an iPhone
While some Twitter users said the tweet was meaningless and other called it a complete nonsense, loyal Trump fans seem to have liked the newly coined word even as they failed to define what it meant.
Trump has sent out a few more tweets since waking up this morning, and these are his usual rants. He is back to normal!
So now it is reported that the Democrats, who have excoriated Carter Page about Russia, don’t want him to testify. He blows away their….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
…case against him & now wants to clear his name by showing “the false or misleading testimony by James Comey, John Brennan…” Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
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