Are you team cov-fee-fee or cov-fay-fay?
Covfefe is everything.
Early this morning, Trump gave Americans the greatest gift to date: covfefe. With one nonsensical tweet—“Despite the constant negative press covfefe”—Trump was able to unite Americans from all walks of life in a moment of “Wait, what?” Twitter, typically reserved for Odyssean-level feuds, turned into a virtual block party last night, bringing everyone together in riffs, memes, puns, and rapid-fire GIFs.
It’s been hours now, and honestly, I’m still riding that covfefe high.
Of course, plenty of theories abounded last night in an attempt to explain what Trump could possibly mean by “covfefe.” Senator Al Franken had his own speculation, jokingly telling CNN that “Covfefe is a Yiddish term for ‘I’ve gotta go to bed now,’” adding, “I think this is the least disturbing thing in the Trump administration.”
The amount of comedy this strange new word has produced is endless, but here are our 13 current favorite attempts by the internet to humorously explain covfefe.
The scent of incompetence, corruption, and nepotism all in one. #covfefe https://t.co/jVpPNRhVWb— tzantali (@tzantali) 1496232832
And as #Covfefe is revealed, saith the prophecy, the Lords of a New Era riseth to undo the Rule of the Fool. https://t.co/1iTUtwdf4H— Lucien Greaves (@Lucien Greaves) 1496208735
If u think you're above covfefe you're part of the probfefe— Kate Berlant (@Kate Berlant) 1496205656
@realDonaldTrump This is #covfefe translated from Russian. https://t.co/1Im7ZzLO0Y— Kristina Wong ?? (@Kristina Wong ??) 1496207391
TRUMP: What happens if they uncover the plot & want to arrest me. PUTIN: We'll pull you out. Just tweet out the code word "covfefe"— Jeet Heer (@Jeet Heer) 1496206881
"And just before you serve it, you hit it with a dash of #Covfefe" https://t.co/fm9CAF4Iyz— Charles M. Blow (@Charles M. Blow) 1496206294
my phone keeps autocorrecting #covfefe to "pls impeach me" ??— pan seared pussy (@pan seared pussy) 1496237728
My dad just bought the CA license plate "COVFEFE." #covfefe https://t.co/WT5bXDTRN3— Talya Cooper (@Talya Cooper) 1496206933
This is so good that I had to continue the tweet storm on this: Urban Dictionary brilliant definition of: #Covfefe https://t.co/VvnjR1j5mJ— Karine Jean-Pierre (@Karine Jean-Pierre) 1496243560