Trump Has Baffled The Internet With A Tweet Even More Incoherent Than Usual

To crudely paraphrase old mate Bill Shakespeare, it is very human to fuck up. We all make spelling mistakes. I personally make a lot of them – there’s even a fair chance there’s one in this paragraph. There’s nothing particularly extraordinary about making a spelling mistake in a tweet. Most of my tweets are unintelligible thanks to a spelling error or missing word, and even if one happens to be grammatically correct, it’s probably still unintelligible because I did it when I was drunk and suddenly developed strong feelings about ‘Groundhog Day‘.

What is extraordinary is when a man who is, by some measure, the most powerful man in the world with a media team designed to stop him from doing exactly this tweets half a sentence ending on a nonsense word and leaves it up for over an hour.

At 12:06 am, just six minutes after midnight, Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, tweeted the following missive to his 31,954,793 followers:

We’d link you to it but, eventually, he’s going to rid of it (surely), so here’s a screenshot:

Did he fall asleep mid-tweet? Hand mashing the ‘send’ button as he gently dosed off to dream about driving a giant drunk shaped like an eagle? We have no way of knowing. 

Some people have some theories, though:

I think our man-baby president died mid-tweet & we’re too busy making covfefe jokes to care so I think that makes us the greatest generation

— joe prince (@joeprince___) May 31, 2017

Regardless of what happened, as with every one of Trump’s weird gaffes and foibles, people are having fun with it. Possibly too much fun.

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

that was a poem by covfefe drangus pic.twitter.com/8wE2j2Hp81

— Sam McDougle (@smickdougle) May 31, 2017

I’m so sorry pic.twitter.com/vB7Cq4pJXg

— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) May 31, 2017

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice covfefe

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) May 31, 2017

so much to do, so much to see, so what’s wrong with taking covfefe / you’ll never know if you don’t gvo / you’ll never shinv i

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) May 31, 2017

(to the tune of let it be) whisper words of wisdom, covfefe

— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) May 31, 2017

covfefe my life to pieces / this is my last resor

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) May 31, 2017

I recreated what it would happen if a phone were suddenly smacked out of someone’s tiny hands mid-typing and — yep, this checks out. pic.twitter.com/fkULEs8iAJ

— Kaitlyn Plyley (@kplyley) May 31, 2017

 

I for one am looking forward to right-wingers madly scramble to pretend like ‘covfefe‘ is a real word that they actually use all the time and it’s the fake news media who are out of touch.