# Dammit, covfefe means this... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 31, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775 "2017-05-31T14:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ganthet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@ganthet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ganthet)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/81 "2017-06-01T06:07:42Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Exactly. It’s not either-or. > > And sometimes it’s good to have a laugh at the inconsequential stupid things Trump does, as a brief respite from worrying about the extremely damaging and dangerous stupid things. Also, it’s a good litmus test for seeing the [depths](https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/869783784299810816) to which Trump’s North Korea-like pundits will go to defend him by insisting the emperor’s clothes are the most luxurious ever: > [@CNN pro-Trump contributor Kayleigh McEnany](#): > > Covfefe - our President is human. Hilarious! Funny to watch left go nuts. An intentional “dog will chase the tail” tweet! #Covfefe In this case by claiming that this was only an accidental typo but one he did on purpose. This is literally doublethink from “1984.” If even something as inconsequential as this merits this kind of failing mental gymnastics, then there is no limit, no Everest-like peak, to which their self-contradictory lies will not attempt to climb to defend the indefensible. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/82 "2017-06-01T06:21:37Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Hey, maybe this is the last puzzle piece that will finally convince everyone that Trump’s a great big dumb dummy. Target the ironic death ray and set to ‘eviscerate’. Yay liberal satire! > > Sorry, I’m just frustrated at liberals opting for the catty jabs instead of the gravely troubling stuff like healthcare, the Paris climate deal, the Russia probe, the obstruction allegations. No wonder Trump spouts stupid shit on Twitter. Nobody can resist the distraction. These all are of a piece. His incurious mind manifests both in harmful “policies,” AND in goofy Twitter errors. I agree we shouldn’t waste too much energy focusing just on the latter, but they are not really separate things. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/83 "2017-06-01T06:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > …And Fox News viewers, this is just one more example of that legendary male stamina, dontcha know? > > “So, he was up tweeting at 12:06 a.m., even if it wasn’t exactly a, well, coherent tweet,” Scott said. “And then at 5:00 a.m., he deleted it. So, I guess the president is, as he said, a man who needs only a few hours sleep,” he crowed… > **[Fox Host: 'Covfefe' Tweet Means Trump Has More Stamina Than Hillary](https://crooksandliars.com/2017/05/fox-host-covfefe-tweet-means-trump-has)** > > It takes a special kind of stupid to say this kind of thing on the air. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/84 "2017-06-01T08:37:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > [Fox Host: 'Covfefe' Tweet Means Trump Has More Stamina Than Hillary | Crooks and Liars](http://crooksandliars.com/2017/05/fox-host-covfefe-tweet-means-trump-has) That’s right, kids - having the leader of the free world be a man who goes without sleep until he passes out while typing incoherently is a _good_ thing! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/85 "2017-06-01T10:49:44Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Exactly. It’s not either-or. > > And sometimes it’s good to have a laugh at the inconsequential stupid things Trump does, as a brief respite from worrying about the extremely damaging and dangerous stupid things. But it does present a ludicrously large target for conservatives to point and laugh and say “look at liberals hyperventilating over nothing again”, or “Trump must be doing great if this is all they have”, or most unfortunately, “Wow, Trump really got them stirred up again! What a genius!” So many escape hatches and opportunities to redirect here. I get it, it’s funny. It does show that he probably dozed off in mid-tweet, which is disturbing. But mocking a typo is not the sharpest kind of satire in the proverbial shed. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/86 "2017-06-01T12:35:17Z")
It was a deliberate distraction. He knew a dumb tweet would get far more attention then important news like withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. I say Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he tweeted “Covfefe”. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/87 "2017-06-01T14:20:50Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > So tempted to change my user name to **covfefe** … I’m going to name my next pet that. > [@MacCat](#): > > That would be Bosco… I do know someone with a pet named that. Pug/Cocker Spaniel mix. Adorable. Great personality, too. > [@panache45](#): > > This. I couldn’t have said it better. > > Except I would have spelled ignoramus correctly. But he’s a REALLY BIG ignoramous. He’s bigger than an ordinary ignoramus. Enormous + ignoramus = ignoramous. Makes perfect sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/88 "2017-06-01T14:21:04Z")
I sometimes wonder if Trump occasionally sits down with his friends and says, "Hey, guys, watch this. I’m gonna send out a tweet that will make the snowflakes have even bigger spasms of stupidity. Let’s see, what can I use? " \ “AHA!” ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/89 "2017-06-01T14:35:15Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I never really considered it, but that is just about as accurate a description of SD as I can think of. Meh. Since the right wing equivalent of a snow globe is a turd bucket from the outhouse, I’m happy being a snowflake. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/90 "2017-06-01T14:42:30Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > The other 3010381810 threads on Trump don’t suffice? Two dopey things liberals do threads were judged redundant, what point does a thread on each Trump tweet become redundant? Unfathomably, there appear to still be some in the country (and on this Board) who don’t yet acknowledge Trump is a complete incompetent buffoon. So, yeah, it make take a few hundred more threads. We all have to do our part. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/91 "2017-06-01T14:49:31Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I sometimes wonder if Trump occasionally sits down with his friends and says, "Hey, guys, watch this. I’m gonna send out a tweet that will make the snowflakes have even bigger spasms of stupidity. Let’s see, what can I use? " > > \ > > “AHA!” Yes, we are well aware that you sometimes wonder idiotic things, not least because whenever you do, you immediately rush here to post them. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/92 "2017-06-01T14:57:11Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Unfathomably, there appear to still be some in the country (and on this Board) who don’t yet acknowledge Trump is a complete incompetent buffoon. So, yeah, it make take a few hundred more threads. We all have to do our part. You have to understand the \*\*octoputz. \*\* He’s in denial like most Trumpanzees, refusing to believe that the tweeting meadow muffin in the White house is a 1st class dumbshit. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/93 "2017-06-01T15:30:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > [Fox Host: 'Covfefe' Tweet Means Trump Has More Stamina Than Hillary | Crooks and Liars](http://crooksandliars.com/2017/05/fox-host-covfefe-tweet-means-trump-has) “So, I guess the president is, as he said, a man who needs only a few hours sleep,” he crowed… " No, he’s a man who has to get up to go to the bathroom multiple times a night. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/94 "2017-06-01T15:33:55Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > … > No, he’s a man who has to get up to go to the bathroom multiple times a night. Seriously, how big of a prostrate can old micropenis have? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/95 "2017-06-01T15:37:59Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Seriously, how big of a prostrate can old micropenis have? That’s **prostate** , unless it is lying down on the job, as often happens in older men. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/96 "2017-06-01T15:41:52Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > That’s **prostate** , unless it is lying down on the job, as often happens in older men. I meant to type prostfefe, 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/97 "2017-06-01T16:01:59Z")
Russian prostrates? ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/98 "2017-06-01T16:43:30Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > But it does present a ludicrously large target for conservatives to point and laugh and say “look at liberals hyperventilating over nothing again”, or “Trump must be doing great if this is all they have”, or most unfortunately, “Wow, Trump really got them stirred up again! What a genius!” So many escape hatches and opportunities to redirect here. > > I get it, it’s funny. It does show that he probably dozed off in mid-tweet, which is disturbing. But mocking a typo is not the sharpest kind of satire in the proverbial shed. Yes, if only we drop the “covfefe” thing, then FOX will start openly acknowledging mistakes and misinformation by the president and the republican party, have an evidence-based discussion on climate change, and generally seek to be balanced and objective. Or, sans sarcasm: conservatives don’t need coherent excuses to ignore everything the left says and defend Trump (even when he contradicts himself). They call everyone who is not them hypocrites or fake news or whatever ad hominem, whatever the issue we’re talking about is, and whatever evidence is brought to the table. So what difference does it make if we get to laugh at Trump over something trivial? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/99 "2017-06-01T16:51:49Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > You have to understand the \*\*octoputz. \*\* He’s in denial like most Trumpanzees, refusing to believe that the tweeting meadow muffin in the White house is a 1st class dumbshit. I agree Trump is a dummy. I just don’t see the need for 6563839393 threads on it. And let’s not talk about denial or delusional while you still believe the UN is going to force the US to let California secede. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775/100 "2017-06-01T16:57:30Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > **King Donald Bible, Exodus 20:17** > > > [@](#): > > > > Thou shalt not covfefe thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covfefe thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. Thou may covfefe everything else. That’s the text after his staff worked on it. The original read: > [@](#): > > Covfefe ur nabor’s stuff. Sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-covfefe-means-this/787775.md?page=6)