Trump tweet on 'negative press covfefe' triggers internet frenzy

Tuesday, May 30, 2017
WASHINGTON -- The internet quickly adopted #Covfefe after President Donald Trump sent out a midnight tweet talking about what he might have meant to read "negative press coverage."

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Many Twitter users took to the platform to try and understand and speculate what the President could have meant:


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And others just used it for humor:



Regardless, many people believed the tweet would have been deleted immediately, but it was up for more than an hour -- magnified to Trump's over 30 million followers.

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