Twitter users are painfully aware of the lack of an edit button. If you have a typo in your tweet, you have to decide if you want to leave it or delete and send again. However, if you’re the President and have over 31 million followers, it doesn’t matter if half of them are bots because Twitter always has receipts. Especially when a nonsensical word like covfefe gets tweeted out.
This all started when Trump tweeted the following from his personal account @realDonaldTrump, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” at 12:06 AM. And that was it. There wasn’t a follow-up tweet to explain covfefe or another tweet with corrected spelling. Six hours passed before the tweet was finally deleted, but by then Twitter users had a blast with the typo and made it the most tweeted tweet since Inauguration Day.
Pres. Trump’s “covfefe” tweet has become president’s most retweeted tweet since Inauguration Day, surpassing tweet from recent foreign trip. pic.twitter.com/GF5QiPGw5K
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 31, 2017
Not sure what covfefe is? That’s fine, no one else is sure either. Here are some of our favorite tweets about covfefe.
First of all, how do you pronounce it?
How is Covfefe pronounced though? 🙂 pic.twitter.com/WGUKDNDdCn
— Marina (@MarinaDiamandis) May 31, 2017
Not sure what a word means or how to pronounce it? You should probably consult a dictionary.
Help, @MerriamWebster. #Covfefe pic.twitter.com/K7JcYusJSC
— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) May 31, 2017
Or maybe not.
Wakes up.
Checks Twitter.
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Uh…
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???? Lookups fo…
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Regrets checking Twitter.
Goes back to bed.— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) May 31, 2017
Don’t worry, Urban Dictionary is up to the task.
The internet wastes no time. #covfefe pic.twitter.com/MDDdSNRtI1
— Norm Kelly (@norm) May 31, 2017
However, Jimmy Kimmel may want to look for a new joke writer.
what makes me saddest is that I know I’ll never write anything funnier than #covfefe
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 31, 2017
About the Great Battle of Covfefe. What had happened was…
Thank you, internet, thank you. ???? #Covfefe pic.twitter.com/yLu8KOWsXP
— Andrea Dubé (@AndDube) May 31, 2017
Trump ultimately decided to have some fun with his typo and asked if anyone could figure out the true meaning.
Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
Maybe it’s an illness?
I’m pretty sure I died from #covfefe while playing the Oregon Trail as a kid … pic.twitter.com/qKcr17nBa7
— Joshér (@josherwalla) May 31, 2017
Or the meme that keeps on giving?
“I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.”
“I don’t know why, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.” #covfefe pic.twitter.com/q4MbquSufb— SimpsonsQOTD (@SimpsonsQOTD) May 31, 2017
“And just before you serve it, you hit it with a dash of #Covfefe” pic.twitter.com/fm9CAF4Iyz
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 31, 2017
You #Covfefe me pic.twitter.com/D6djMlrduk
— Brett McCleaf (@BMcClizzle) May 31, 2017
The legend of #covfefe continues… pic.twitter.com/VvY1GYsTO7
— Ms.eLLE© (@Elle_Sandes) May 31, 2017
Couldn’t resist getting in on this #Covfefe fun. pic.twitter.com/FilonJY60s
— Kyle Aaron (@Tonewise_Music) May 31, 2017
The scent of incompetence, corruption, and nepotism all in one.#covfefe pic.twitter.com/jVpPNRhVWb
— tzantali (@Tzantali1) May 31, 2017
Even though Sean Spicer claims that Trump knows what covfefe is, we’re going to believe that it’s the meme that keeps on giving.
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