---
title: "If ‘Covfefe’ Were A DoD Acronym, What Would It Stand For?"
date: "2017-05-31"
modified: "2017-05-31"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/covfefe-pentagon-acronym-trump/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Humor"
tags:
  - "donald trump"
---

# If ‘Covfefe’ Were A DoD Acronym, What Would It Stand For?

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/19040663-1.png>)

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](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](<https://www.vulture.com/2013/03/carrie-sex-city-couldnt-help-but-wonder.html>): Did our commander-in-chief just let slip a secret new DARPA program, or some sort of new command [focused solely on shitposting](<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fefe>)?

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/869922410451136512

https://twitter.com/TehJawsh/status/869918227932958721

https://twitter.com/MamaPapajoles/status/869917523491377152

https://twitter.com/padrock/status/869918674345480192

https://twitter.com/PunctualHipster/status/869922712868839425

https://twitter.com/sflicht/status/869952580142727168

https://twitter.com/RealRJSanchez/status/869923800770654208

https://twitter.com/MrAnansi/status/869929958205923328

https://twitter.com/silver25u/status/869929390980911104

https://twitter.com/StephenWHudson1/status/869929194444214272

https://twitter.com/VigoCarpathian1/status/869920825453023232

Honestly, this one seems the most plausible:

https://twitter.com/frankaquila88/status/869923059385475072

Then again:

https://twitter.com/ryanbeckwith/status/869917146960338944

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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