

A thread was also posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop inquiring about covfefe. Meanwhile on Reddit, a number of meme-focused communities quickly began to create myriad memes about "covfefe." Dozens of posts appeared on /r/MemeEconomy that morning referencing Covfefe, the most popular of which, a parody of the Trump's First Order of Business exploitable posted by simgasm, gained over 23,000 points (shown below, left). The entire incident was covered by news outlets including CNN, The New York Times, NPR, and many more. At 6:07, Trump tweeted "Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ? Enjoy!" (shown below).

that morning, the tweet had finally been deleted. Some wondered if he had in fact had suffered a medical emergency halfway through a tweet, explaining why the tweet had stayed up for so long.īy 6:00 a.m. However, as the tweet remained up, more and more confusion as to what happened with Trump began to spread through Twitter. Some of these jokes were compiled in a Twitter Moment that morning. Some popular examples include a tweet by which made a joke about it sounding like "coffee" that gained over 6,500 retweets (shown below, left), and another by that made a joke about it sounding like "cocaine" out of the mouth of the Dave Chappelle character Tyrone Biggums that gained over 800 retweets (shown below, right). Some of the most popular involved making puns on words "covfefe" sounded similar to. Instantly after the tweet, a deluge of jokes about "covfefe" appeared on Twitter. According to CNN, as of 4:00 AM, the tweet had gained over 108,000 retweets and 135,000 likes. on May 31st, 2017, Trump tweeted "Despite the constant negative press covfefe".
