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Social media was trying to make sense of Donald Trump early Wednesday after a gibberish late-night tweet set off a storm of jokes about the US president.

The Twitter post, sent shortly before midnight local time, reads “inspite the negative press covfefe,” in an apparent reference to the press coverage that Trump has often derided as “fake news”.

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017

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The post is still available more than four hours after it appeared on his feed and no clarification has been given.

Using the hashtag “covfefe,” Twitter users speculated over the reason behind the tweet.

Taking aim at Trump’s controversial relations with Russia, a Twitter user quipped that she had translated #covfefe into Russian, attaching a doctored image that showed the gibberish word to be a translation of “I resign”.

This is #covfefe translated from Russian. pic.twitter.com/1Im7ZzLO0Y

— Kristina Wong ❄️ (@mskristinawong) May 31, 2017

Before long, the word had its own Urban Dictionary definition: “When you want to say ‘coverage’ but your hands are too small to hit all the letters on your keyboard.”

Here are some Twitter reactions.

“And just before you serve it, you hit it with a dash of #Covfefe” pic.twitter.com/fm9CAF4Iyz

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 31, 2017

Arsene Wenger is poised to sign a new two-year deal at Arsenal today, despite the constant negative press covfefe pic.twitter.com/PPWb74kfeF

— B/R Football (@brfootball) May 31, 2017

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Knock on *45’s door:
“Mr. Resident, would you like the good news first or the bad?”
“Good news.”
“One of your tweets went viral…”#covfefe pic.twitter.com/dmuIs3DYVK

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— StrictlyCovfefe ???? (@christoq) May 31, 2017

Even Queen is Disturbed ????#covfefe pic.twitter.com/djiGpPjRdr

— Nabeel Chaudhry (@chaudhry_nabeel) May 31, 2017

When you’re deep in #covfefe tweets and realize that the man responsible for the tweet also has access to nuclear launch codes… 😀 pic.twitter.com/EEsRoG4VPZ

— XxZroyaxX ???? (@XxZroyaxX) May 31, 2017

White House currently fighting over who has to wake Trump up to ask for his Twitter password…#Covfefe pic.twitter.com/FNgwyltVnc

— Brushing Off (@BrushingOff) May 31, 2017

Get the #Covfefe outta my way.. pic.twitter.com/w3N9qyfzmx

— American Man (@RScarberry3) May 31, 2017

#covfefe Day One pic.twitter.com/0rm2sDexY9

— Gareth Burge (@GarethBPhoto) May 31, 2017

“I used to be white but now I’m just a deeper shade of #covfefe ” pic.twitter.com/MECTqfNgko

— Parveen Agnihotri (@Parveen_Comms) May 31, 2017