By Thursday morning, the tweet was taken down and replaced by a coy challenge to Twitter: “Who can figure out the true meaning of ‘covfefe’ ? Enjoy!” In that sense, #covfefe offers us a more profound lesson about the relationship between power and language. It was symptomatic of a broader trend among the presidential staff to offer implausible explanations for the president’s actions and led to further jokes about his administration’s tenuous relationship with the truth.īut it may be Trump who had the last laugh. It fit into larger narratives of Trump’s impulsive and uncontrollable tweeting, his poorly conceived media strategy, his less-than-stellar intellect – and his small hands.Īn attempt by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, to explain it away left correspondents baffled: “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,” Spicer replied to a question about Trump’s tweet. As the media scholar Jeffrey Jones has argued, satire opens up new forms of critique – allowing us to engage with political arguments that may be otherwise impossible to articulate. Residents of Covington, Kentucky, started a petition to change their town’s name to Covfefe, turning it “into the bigly-est and most beautiful must-see place from sea to shining sea.” True meaningĪnd so #covfefe became a meta-commentary which enabled audiences not just to laugh, but also to reflect on the larger controversies surrounding Trump’s presidency. Support quality journalism and subscribe to Business Standard.Hillary Clinton, embroiled in a Twitter row with Trump after he again described her as “ Crooked Hillary” on Wednesday night, seized a golden opportunity when she wrote: “People in covfefe houses shouldn’t throw covfefe.” Your support through more subscriptions can help us practise the journalism to which we are committed. We believe in free, fair and credible journalism. More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. Our subscription model has seen an encouraging response from many of you, who have subscribed to our online content. Even during these difficult times arising out of Covid-19, we continue to remain committed to keeping you informed and updated with credible news, authoritative views and incisive commentary on topical issues of relevance.Īs we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content.
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Twitter had a field day, with users trolling the President to the fullest. More than 73,000 people retweeted the tweet in just 120 minutes, and it earned its own hashtag. Sincere thanks to whoever ran into the crapper to explain the value of protest to the president, then ran in again to explain spelling.Įarlier this year, Trump sent a lot of people scurrying for dictionaries when he posted an odd tweet that used the word "covfefe". "Sincere thanks to whoever ran into the crapper to explain the value of protest to the president, then ran in again to explain spelling," Harris wrote. US journalist Mark Harris made a pun saying that one of Trump's staff members had been helping him understand the importance of the Boston counter-protesters and good spelling. "heal (to become healthy again), heel (a contemptible person), he'll (he will)," Merriam-Webster tweeted. Merriam-Webster tweeted out few definitions of the words pronounced the same heel. By then Twitter had already started trolling and mocking him. CSadS2OqcEīut that was too late for the President. Sometimes you need protest in order to heal, and we will heal and be stronger than ever before!" Trump finally wrote in his third attempt. "Our great country has been divided for decades. It was in his third tweet that he managed to get the word right. Trump was commenting on the protest rally where over 15,000 anti-fascist demonstrated against right-wing activists on Saturday in Boston.īut his first two tweets included the similar typo - spelling "heal" as "heel". US President Donald Trump's "covfefe" nightmare recurred when he commented on the anti-fascist protest rally, saying the country will "heel" instead of "heal".
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