Covfefe is everywhere. It seeps through the cracks of our newsfeed and greets us with a punch in memespace. This word will continue to be in public discourse for a while. We bring to you, a bit about its origins and the ocean of hilarity it has spawned.
It was 12:06am on May 31, 2016 in Washington DC. And US President Trump sent out this tweet:
Many assumed that covfefe was simply a typo of coverage. But, instead of being instantly deleted, the tweet stayed up for several hours.
Needless to say, the internet went wild, with twitter (duh!) leading the charge.
Here are some of the best stuff we could find about Covfefe. Enjoy!
Merriam Webster reacted to the sudden surge of people trying to find out the meaning of covfefe:
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
You know something is wrong when a dictionary starts worrying about a word!
Then there was this:
Years of research and billions of dollars were spent to bring us this Internet and this is what we get #thankyouinternet #covfefe pic.twitter.com/mNGf9uJ8cY
— Colin Miner (@cominer) May 31, 2017
And someone decided to get a personalised liscence plate.
My dad just bought the CA license plate “COVFEFE.” #covfefe pic.twitter.com/WT5bXDTRN3
— Talya Cooper (@talicoop) May 31, 2017
Trump’s election rival Hillary Clinton got in the covfefe too:
People in covfefe houses shouldn’t throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017
And here’s Anderson Cooper (with his awesome silver hair) discussing the best covfefe tweets. Some of the tweets are epic!
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah joined in the fun on his show:
But he was not finished. He imagined a trailer of the movie “Covfefe”
Soon there was a Covefe subreddit on reddit.com (not even surprised at this point) which attracted several thousand subscribers in the span of hours.
Later the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer had this to say about covfefe:
“I think the president and a small group of people knew exactly what he meant”
President Trump himself sent out this tweet:
Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017
Urban dictionary offered several meanings from various users:
But this person shared a rather interesting definition on Twitter:
Here you go. #covfefe pic.twitter.com/fd1SUGGKa0
— Espionage = Bad (@TrumperTrolling) May 31, 2017
Some of the jokes were rather brutal.
Take this work of photoshop, for instance
Covfefe
And here are some some more funny ones
This Washington Post video does a good short summary about the covfefe effect
Indian twitter users were not found wanting:
Indians Have Hilariously Dismantled @realDonaldTrump‘s Super Confusing “Covfefe” Tweet https://t.co/ZTQNytC78t pic.twitter.com/NIaqkAZ95G
— BuzzFeed India (@BuzzFeedIndia) May 31, 2017
And there’s a change.org petition underway to make ‘Covfefe the word of the year.
https://www.change.org/p/oxford-dictionary-make-covfefe-word-of-the-year-2017
At Social Doses, we tried some covfefe:
And then covfefed some more:
Memefefe
Covfefevolution
And of course:
We hope the article made you smile a bit. Which image/video did you like the most?
Covfefe us!
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