When Donald Trump was President of the United States, he used the term Covfefe in a viral tweet, which was widely assumed to be a typo. On the internet, it immediately became a meme.
'Despite the persistent negative press covfefe,' Trump tweeted six minutes after midnight (EDT) on May 31, 2017.
Six hours later, he erased the tweet, implying that the language was deliberate. Most news organizations assumed he meant to type 'coverage.' 'I think the President and a limited handful of individuals know exactly what he meant,' White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.
The term has now become widespread in internet memes and merchandise, inspiring both popular and academic examination of the Trump administration's language and messaging.
The tweet drew a lot of attention in the media and on social media, and it immediately went viral. Both the phrase and the tweet had a wide range of cultural, economic, and social implications.
'Covfefe' soon went viral, prompting jokes and theories about its meaning on social media and in the news. On the morning of May 31, it was retweeted over 105,000 times, had over 148,000 likes, and became a viral Internet meme. Within 24 hours of Trump's tweet, the hashtag #covfefe had been used 1.4 million times on the Internet.
On May 31, the Google search phrase 'covfefe' eclipsed the search term 'Paris climate,' the same day Trump said the US would pull out of the Paris Agreement.
