Trump’s strange ‘covfefe’ tweet makes him butt of jokes on social media

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”.

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”.

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.