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  • 2017-06-05 (xsd:date)
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  • President Trump's Tweet About Covfefe Has Hidden... (nl)
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  • President Trump's Tweet About Covfefe Has Hidden Meaning-Unproven! President Trump’s Tweet About Covfefe Has Hidden Meaning- Unproven! Summary of eRumor: A tweet from President Trump’s personal Twitter account included the word covfefe, leading to questions about the definition of covfefe. The Truth: There are lots of theories about the definition of covfefe, and about why President Trump used the word in a tweet, but all of those theories are unproven at this point. President Trump mystified his millions of Twitter followers on May 31, 2017, when he abruptly ended a tweet about negative press coverage with the word covfefe and declined to provide further explanation or corrections: The most obvious answer is that President Trump meant to tweet Despite the constant negative press coverage... but misspelled coverage and mistakenly posted the tweet to his timeline before finishing his thought. But the typo explanation didn’t seem to stick, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer added to the confusion when asked about the meaning of covfefe during a press briefing : The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. The result was a half-serious effort by internet commenters to define covfefe. President Trump seemingly encouraged the light-hearted banter with a tweet encouraging people to find the world’s meaning: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.complex.com%2Flife%2F2017%2F05%2Ftrump-covfefe-theories Again, there’s no clear-cut definition for covfefe, and it’s not clear what the president’s intent (if he had any) was in including the word in a tweet. But we’ll look at a few of the most popular theories out there. Covfefe Means I quit or I resign in Russian One of the first theories about the meaning of covfefe is one of the easiest to debunk. The word covfefe doesn’t appear to have any meaning in the Russian language (according to Google Translate , at least). And the Russian translation of I resign and I quit doesn’t resemble covfefe at all: The Russian translation of I quit and I resign don’t resembe covfefe. Covfefe is the Name of a Demon Also one of the earliest explanations for the definition of covfefe was that it referred to a mythical demon that apparently grows stronger each time it’s name is spoken or written. That theory was advanced most notably by The Welcome Collection, a London-based museum of curiosities. What's #Covfefe ? Our collection suggests it's a demon summoned by writing its name over & over again. Its powers are unclear. Bear with! 😬 pic.twitter.com/Idk5dACcpO — Wellcome Collection (@ExploreWellcome) May 31, 2017 It appears, however, that The Welcome Collection may have been joking. The demon depicted in the image above, which dates back to the 1770s, is actually called Wamidal . We couldn’t find any reference in demonology to a demon named confefe, so this theory is yet another dead end. In the end, it seems most likely that President Trump’s covfefe tweet was the result of a simple typo. There’s no clear-cut explanation for what the word means, but it’s fairly easy to shoot-down the many theories about the meaning of covfefe like the two above. That’s why we’re calling all things related to covfefe unproven. Posted in Politics , Trump Tagged conspiracy theories , donald trump , media , social media (en)
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