On the evening of May 30, the internet lost its collective mind: President Donald Trump, known for tweeting first and spell-checking later, dropped a hilarious typo: “covfefe.”
https://twitter.com/jaredbkeller/status/869770316809199616
Don’t ask me what it means. I have no fucking idea, and it doesn’t really matter; everyone makes typos in their tweets, even if those tweets now carry the weight of U.S. government policy behind them.
But to the horde of journalists desperate for a reprieve from the crushing scandal and outrage cycle that’s plagued the Trump administration since inauguration, “covfefe” represents a chance to both blow off steam and put on their stand-up comedian hat — something political journalists, with few exceptions, do atrociously.
Don’t get me wrong, as far as typos go, “covfefe” is pretty great, the modern descendent of “dayenu” for a civil society now driven by garbage people and their garbage tweets about garbage. And given Trump’s reported propensity to blurt out classified information when it suits him, I couldn’t help but wonder: Did our commander-in-chief just let slip a secret new DARPA program, or some sort of new command focused solely on shitposting?
I asked Task & Purpose readers. Their responses made me giggle — which, in the end, is all anyone ever wanted out of “covfefe”: a moment to forget the American garbage cycle.
Here are some tweets. Leave me alone.
https://twitter.com/MessyFingers/status/869922410451136512https://twitter.com/TehJawsh/status/869918227932958721https://twitter.com/MamaPapajoles/status/869917523491377152https://twitter.com/padrock/status/869918674345480192https://twitter.com/PunctualHipster/status/869922712868839425https://twitter.com/sflicht/status/869952580142727168https://twitter.com/RealRJSanchez/status/869923800770654208https://twitter.com/MrAnansi/status/869929958205923328https://twitter.com/silver25u/status/869929390980911104https://twitter.com/StephenWHudson1/status/869929194444214272https://twitter.com/VigoCarpathian1/status/869920825453023232
Honestly, this one seems the most plausible:
https://twitter.com/frankaquila88/status/869923059385475072
Then again: