GettyDo you even Covfefe?
Yesterday President Donald Trump tweeted the enigmatic phrase: ‘Despite the constant negative press covfefe’. The tweet came with no explanation and was left hanging there on the Twittersphere.
The as-of-yet undeleted tweet has been clogging up Twitter trends ever since, garnering 101,000 retweets and 128,000 likes at the time of writing.
Twitter/@realDonaldTrumpPresident Donald Trump is no stranger to cryptic tweets and elusive language, but when he tweeted late last night, little did the citizens of America know they’d wake up to a world of Covefe conspiracy theories.
Trump’s Twitter has since exploded with CovfefeGate explanations, most of which make about as much sense as Covfefe itself.
In case you want to impress your friends with your Covfefe knowledge, beware: Covfefe’s meaning is about as clear-cut as its pronunciation.
What is the correct pronunciation of #covfefe?
— Fusion (@Fusion) May 31, 2017
Stretch your imagination and check out some of these Covfefe theories.
Covfefe is the nuclear code
putin: send me the nuclear codes
trump: check my twitter
putin: what
trump: I’ll be discreet
putin: wait-
trump: https://t.co/96V2rZ0nZj— dan mentos (@DanMentos) May 31, 2017
"Anyone remember how the wars began?"
Me in leather with a mohawk: Trump put the nuclear launch code into his phone's autocorrect.#covfefe— Zane Friedman (@zanejfriedman) May 31, 2017
The Donald had a stroke
hello – donald did u have a stroke – someone check on him – @potus @IvankaTrump – dad has half tweeted about "covfefe" HE NEEDS HELP –#CHECK
— ROSIE (@Rosie) May 31, 2017
Upstaging Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin: Tonight, I have all of Twitter paying attention to me!@realDonaldTrump: Hold my #covfefe.
— Victoria Cliett (@VictoriaCliett1) May 31, 2017
Stroke?I've been visualizing this. (Not Kathy Griffin's violent, horrific, nonsense) Just a fall down the stairs of Air Force 1. Or a stroke
— Martyn LeNoble (@martynlenoble) May 31, 2017
American comedian Kathy Griffin came under fire last night on Twitter for circulating an image of a replica of Trump’s bloodied head after a beheading. Some say this is Trump’s way of manipulating the media away from the outrage.
Covfefe is a Neo-Nazi symbol
I wasn't sure what exactly @realDonaldTrump meant by "covfefe," so I looked it up in an early-20th-century German encyclopedia.#covfefe pic.twitter.com/ugOcKSzmF4
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) May 31, 2017
This guy went as far as photoshopping his definition of covfefe into an ‘early 20th century German dictionary’. Donald will love this fake news.
POTUS was drunk
I think he's implying he's passed out drunk/high and naked
— Jen Gertken (@singingtricoach) May 31, 2017
We’ve all been victim of drunk auto-correct; you just don’t expect it from the POTUS – especially not when they are actually tee-total, like Donald Trump.
Final words
Or, pulled an Elvis in the middle of a tweet. That would make this his last words. #Covfefe
— Joanie Reb (@JoanieReb) May 31, 2017
This dark theory resigns Trump to his own death over a little typo. In the extremely unlikely case this is true, it would make Covfefe his final words on Twitter.
A cuppa Joe
Don't even tlakka to me until I've had my mourning cup of covfefe
— Eileen M. ?'Connell (@i_Lean) May 31, 2017
Some think Trump rose early to rule his country and just hadn’t had his morning covfefe.
The Real American Horror Story
— Tom Knight (@TJ_Knight) May 31, 2017
One man thinks this marks the point at which the American people started living the real American Horror Story.
Covfefe, straight from the horse’s mouth. What could it mean?
A former emo kid who talks too much about 8Chan meme culture, the Kardashian Klan, and how her smartphone is probably killing her. Francesca is a Cardiff University Journalism Masters grad who has done words for BBC, ELLE, The Debrief, DAZED, an art magazine you’ve never heard of and a feminist zine which never went to print.