Trump tweet on 'negative press covfefe' triggers internet frenzy

Byby ABC7News.com Staff KGO logo
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
President Donald Trump sent out this tweet on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.
President Donald Trump sent out this tweet on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.
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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."

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

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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