Covfefe
You might remember it as despite the constant negative press covfefe
“Despite the constant negative press covfefe”
Famous internet fails9 of 11
2017·The platform era
A word that appeared at the end of an unfinished tweet by the President of the United States, and stayed up for six hours.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- despite the constant negative press covfefe
- Began as
- A social-media post
- Format
- Post
- Who or what it shows
- Donald Trump
- What it said
- “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”
- Posted by
- Donald Trump, then President of the United States, from his own account
- First posted
- On Twitter, at six minutes past midnight in Washington on 31 May 2017; deleted about six hours later
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
At six minutes past midnight on 31 May 2017 the President of the United States tweeted the words despite the constant negative press covfefe and stopped. It stayed up six hours. Everyone assumed he meant coverage. Rather than say so he asked who could figure out the true meaning, and his press secretary said a small group of people knew exactly what he meant.
TimelineIn order
- Made
The tweet is posted at six minutes past midnight, Washington time. It is deleted about six hours later, and followed by: “Who can figure out the true meaning of ‘covfefe’ ??? Enjoy!”1
- Mainstream
A bill called the COVFEFE Act is introduced in Congress, to require that presidential social-media posts be archived. It goes no further.1 What else happened on 12 June
- Came back
Trump uses the word as a hashtag in a post on his own platform.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asHe admitted it was a typing error.
ActuallyHe never did. His press secretary said the president and a small group of people knew exactly what he meant.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This first circulated as a social-media post, not as a video upload.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This first circulated as a social-media post, not as a video upload.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- Where
- Known on X.
More from 2017You were there
SourcesWhat was read
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