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Just to put my mind at rest..."Despite the constant negative press covfefe."...we all agree Trump meant 'coverage' right?

LeoPanthera 9y ago
It's hard to imagine what else he meant. The assumption is that he got interrupted mid-typing and accidentally sent it.
- prawn 9y ago
  I think it was "coverage" but he fell asleep tweeting, it posted and then he slept without realising what had happened. I frequently fall asleep while browsing on my phone and wake up having clicked ads, articles I had no interest in, silly contextual links, etc.
  - problems 9y ago
    This is even better if you imagine it as him passing out and dropping the phone on his face, bouncing off his nose to get the 'fefe' and landing on his cheek to press send.
dualogy 9y ago
There have been tweets/vids about it meaning "[I'm] still standing" or some such in Arabic --- my curiousity in the matter was too tiny to verify for myself =)
MereInterest 9y ago
I am in agreement that it was intending to be "coverage", but that the follow-up response is what makes it worth discussing. If he had admitted to making a typo, then it would have been a complete non-issue. It was Trump's failed attempts at putting a deeper meaning behind a typo, in order to avoid admitting to the slightest mistake, that made it noteworthy.
- emsy 9y ago
  Or you know, he was making fun of his typo, which would be the charitable interpretation. But we can't possibly be charitable to a monster like Trump!
  - gh02t 9y ago
    Yeah, I mean I really don't like Trump, but it's hard to believe this follow-up is anything but a joke, unless there were some more tweets I didn't see. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/86985833347752345...
  - Houshalter 9y ago
    >Off camera, at a press briefing later the same day, Sean Spicer responded to questions about the tweet that "the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant." No further explanation was given during the briefing. Some reporters, observing that Spicer did not appear to be joking, were concerned by the implications.
jon_richards 9y ago
That makes more sense than "kerfuffle" (I feel dumb now).
- majewsky 9y ago
  I shall henceforth read "covfefe" as "kerfuffle". Thank you, dear sir.
MaxfordAndSons 9y ago
Yes. I found it strange and frustrating that most of the coverage of the tweet declined to point out this simplest possible explanation, instead helping render the non-story more distracting and inscrutable by not making this simple deductive leap.

LeoPanthera 9y ago

It's hard to imagine what else he meant. The assumption is that he got interrupted mid-typing and accidentally sent it.

prawn 9y ago
I think it was "coverage" but he fell asleep tweeting, it posted and then he slept without realising what had happened. I frequently fall asleep while browsing on my phone and wake up having clicked ads, articles I had no interest in, silly contextual links, etc.
- problems 9y ago
  This is even better if you imagine it as him passing out and dropping the phone on his face, bouncing off his nose to get the 'fefe' and landing on his cheek to press send.

dualogy 9y ago

There have been tweets/vids about it meaning "[I'm] still standing" or some such in Arabic --- my curiousity in the matter was too tiny to verify for myself =)

MereInterest 9y ago

I am in agreement that it was intending to be "coverage", but that the follow-up response is what makes it worth discussing. If he had admitted to making a typo, then it would have been a complete non-issue. It was Trump's failed attempts at putting a deeper meaning behind a typo, in order to avoid admitting to the slightest mistake, that made it noteworthy.

emsy 9y ago
Or you know, he was making fun of his typo, which would be the charitable interpretation. But we can't possibly be charitable to a monster like Trump!
- gh02t 9y ago
  Yeah, I mean I really don't like Trump, but it's hard to believe this follow-up is anything but a joke, unless there were some more tweets I didn't see. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/86985833347752345...
- Houshalter 9y ago
  >Off camera, at a press briefing later the same day, Sean Spicer responded to questions about the tweet that "the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant." No further explanation was given during the briefing. Some reporters, observing that Spicer did not appear to be joking, were concerned by the implications.

jon_richards 9y ago

That makes more sense than "kerfuffle" (I feel dumb now).

majewsky 9y ago
I shall henceforth read "covfefe" as "kerfuffle". Thank you, dear sir.

MaxfordAndSons 9y ago

Yes. I found it strange and frustrating that most of the coverage of the tweet declined to point out this simplest possible explanation, instead helping render the non-story more distracting and inscrutable by not making this simple deductive leap.