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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm almost as amused by the people trying to explain "covfefe."
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The serious comments explaining that Trump probably meant to type "coverage" are pretty comical. Look, it's quite obvious he was trying to type coverage. That's not the point, or why "covfefe" is at once hysterical and frightening. It shows our President is quite literally asleep at the wheel, tweeting random nonsense in the wee hours of the night, with no checks on what is going out to the world. It's really kind of scary when you think about it.
Yeah, we know he meant coverage.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Did he just blink out in the middle of a sentence? He doesn't seem to be awake till hours later.
That is a real concern.
lastlib
(23,251 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The American people deserve to know if their president still has all his marbles. Full physical now, and not by Dr. Bornstein.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)He is either drugged or has a brain problem.
lostnfound
(16,184 posts)People can sleepwalk, sleeptalk, sleepsex, sleeptweet..on the stuff.
Hopefully not sleepnuke, though. Needs a warning label. "Do not permit access to civilization-destroying capability while under the influence of this medicine." Mushroom cloud icon.
When it's all over, Trump can sue the makers of Ambien. Bigly.
Ambien can make you do some weird shit, and then not even remember it. Another possibility is oxycodone or some other narcotic. I've seen people begin a sentence, but start dozing in the middle of it, and by the end it is complete gibberish.
But it seems clear that he's on something strong.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It was like one minute you were completely coherent and then next you were out cold. I was on the phone with someone one night and he said in the middle of a conversation I just dropped off. That could have been what happened to Trump.
bdamomma
(63,883 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)"Someone is trying to wrestle this phone out of my hand and I accidentally hit 'send'."
It can also be applied to the particular body-check and tackle maneuver employed by Ivanka and Jared to pull this off.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)Just let that sink in.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)lastlib
(23,251 posts)underpants
(182,834 posts)nocalflea
(1,387 posts)I wonder when they are going to figure out he needs an overnight minder ?
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Ivanka needs to spend more time with Dad.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)criticizing an honest mistake, because anyone could make a spelling error, etc.
The news host replied, yeah, but we aren't the ones with the nuclear codes.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)are frightening in the so-called leader of a super-power.
kcr
(15,317 posts)He had some sort of devastating health crisis around the time of that trip, like a stroke. He isn't well.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)tblue37
(65,409 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)He either fell asleep and sent by accident, letting the tweet sit in public for hours, or someone took the phone away and didn't realize what had happened.
People say "Oh, he's replaced it with a self-deprecatingly humorous replacement" but if he really meant to do that, they wouldn't have deleted the old one. A normal person would have replied and said: "Wow, dropped the phone and didn't realize what I typed, ha!", but the length of time before the replacement meant there was a meeting about how to save face.
And his re-tweet about it, of course, isn't self-deprecating, it's a "Your welcome, the internet!" like his 140 characters are gold coins he tosses around to the peasants.
bdamomma
(63,883 posts)for this sick a$$ man don't they? the guy only gets 4 hours sleep no wonder he makes mistakes. not a healthy lifestyle........
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)a president should be more careful what he shares to the public
tblue37
(65,409 posts)up after his worst mistakes.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Goodheart
(5,334 posts)and he didn't know how to operate the press? Looks like he could have really used that caffeine jolt, too.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)knows it was "cover-up."
dae
(3,396 posts)dog Fefo.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Despite the negative press, confetti!
He was probably reading negative items about his foreign tour. Spicer comes out an issues ridiculous statements about it being historically successful, he was admired & rec'd accolades abroad (yada yada...Spicer was repeating Trump's grandiose words).
In other words...there was confetti everywhere he went, figuratively speaking, despite the negative American press. Covfefe. Confetti.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Without the silly typo, it's still a weird thing to tweet if there wasn't more to the 'thought'.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Most frequently tweeted from a golden commode by delusional megalomaniacs at odd hours while making poor scientific and social decisions that will affect the planet for decades.
"Covfefe!"
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)Ptah
(33,032 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,992 posts)I'm not very good at it--and even I know to check what I'm putting out there. He's the fucking president, typos of this caliber have the potential to start incidents.
Atman
(31,464 posts)"Tomorrow will be a new clear day for North Korea. Covfefe."
adigal
(7,581 posts)"Despite the negative news covfefe..."
Yes?? Despite it, what?? That word "despite" means more is coming. He hit Send without finishing a thought. Really very odd.