COVFEFE

That is the question, or the answer, or...

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

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9:06 PM - 30 May 2017

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Three hours and counting that's been up, unaltered. The Internet is... enjoying itself. The replies are hilarious. Be sure to vote in the pronunciation poll!

I should've made my own poll, but can't change it to one sooo....

WHAT IS COVFEFE?

1) A refreshing beverage

2) A newfangled umbrella

3) What Trump yells when he can't remember the name of that guy who was gonna bomb that thing, or do something, or get him a soda.

4) Sex toy

5) When you know you should get up and do stuff but the bed is cozy and ... covfefe

6) A small marsupial

7) The answer Douglas Adams couldn't reveal until now.

Vote below -- or add your own guess!

Hmm, I'm Cuv-feh-fey.

The M-W one is brilliant. I also love the NYT headline -- What’s a ‘Covfefe’? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation

WASHINGTON — And on the 132nd day, just after midnight, President Trump had at last delivered the nation to something approaching unity — in bewilderment, if nothing else.

The state of our union was … covfefe.

The trouble began, as it so often does, on Twitter, in the early minutes of Wednesday morning. Mr. Trump had something to say. Kind of.

“Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” the tweet began, at 12:06 a.m., from @realDonaldTrump, the irrepressible internal monologue of his presidency.

And that was that.

A minute passed. Then another. Then five.

Surely he would delete the message.

Ten. Twenty. It was nearly 12:30 a.m.

Forty minutes. An hour. The questions mounted.

Had the president’s lawyers, so eager to curb his stream-of-consciousness missives, tackled the commander in chief under the cover of night?

Perhaps, some worried aloud, Mr. Trump had experienced a medical episode a quarter of the way through his 140 characters.

No one at the White House could immediately be reached for comment.

By 1 a.m., the debate had effectively consumed Twitter — or at least a certain segment of insomniac Beltway types, often journalists and political operatives — ascending the list of trending topics.

"Of course #covfefe is real word. It was coined during the Bowling Green Massacre."

— Diane N. Sevenay (@Diane_7A) May 31, 2017

It's been five minutes. What if this is it. That is his final tweet & the rest of history stops.

— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) May 31, 2017...

Eventually, the jokes lurched into delirium. Twitter users held forth on the former F.B.I. director James Covfefe. They pledged to order a grande covfefe during their next Starbucks runs. They announced they had at last discovered what Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of “Lost in Translation.”

And as the hour wore on, stragglers turned their lonely eyes to the only account that could save them.

Help, @MerriamWebster. #Covfefe

— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) May 31, 2017

The dictionary obliged.

“Wakes up. Checks Twitter. Uh...” it began. “Regrets checking Twitter. Goes back to bed.”

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