covfefe
noun/koʊ.ˈfɛf.i/ · /koʊ.ˈfɛf.eɪ/
Etymology From a tweet by Donald Trump on May 31, 2017: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”, presumably intending to write coverage. Donald Trump later tweeted: “Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!”. Sense 1 ("deliberate misspelling of coffee") is from the phonetic similarity.
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Deliberate, Humorous, Misspelling Deliberate misspelling of coffee.
- A covfefe journal! Write your deep thoughts in this journal while drinking covfefe.2017, Carter, Powered by Covfefe: Writing Journal, CreateSpace, →ISBN:
- IN AN AMERICA so gluten-free that a box of jelly donuts is now a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin, where college kids are more afraid of Ann Coulter than HIV, it’s time for someone to stand up and make us all smell the covfefe.2017, Denis Leary, Why We Don’t Suck and How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches, New York, N.Y.: Crown Archetype, →ISBN, front flap:
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- On 31 May, we all woke up and smelled the Covfefe.2017, James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, The Book of the Year: The Weirder Side of 2017, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 57:
- Everyone has a vote, and votes matter. Next election, use yours. Now get a cup of covfefe and dive in.2018 January 19, Alek Korab, “Welcome to Metro.us”, in Alek Korab, editor, Metro New York, New York, N.Y., page 2, column 3:
- Drilling down into the details of the report, rather than just cutting and pasting from a news release, reveals an increase in covfefe consumption range from .02 to .15 UK cups per day among the genetically enhanced like myself.2018 November 22, Ricki Lewis, “The Coffee-Genes Story Brews Discontent on Thanksgiving”, in DNA Science (PLOS Blogs), archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
- Now you’re in the sunken place … with a damn fine cup of “covfefe”: the dangers of nostalgia and the darkness of future past in the age of Trump2019, “Contents”, in Victoria McCollum, editor, Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
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Deliberate, Humorous, Misspelling Deliberate misspelling of coverage.
- Following Donald Trump’s post, Royal Jordanian airline used the typo ‘covfefe’ in an advertisement stating, “Offering wide covfefe of the USA through gateway cities.”[2017 June 3, Staff writer, Al Arabiya English, MBC Group, archived from the original on 17 May 2021, Variety:
- Some might say that after Donald Trump’s inauguration, world events became so bizarre in 2017 that our covfefe of the year’s offbeat yarns would pale in comparison. Not so. From the US president inspiring people to use toilets in India to snakes on trains in Indonesia and outrageous aircrew rage, there’s something to shock everyone.2017 December 31, Thomas Sturrock, Ben O'Rourke, “Twisted tales from 2017: viral weirdness from around the world”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong: SCMP Publishers, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2017:
- Go ahead, read on to humankind’s honest truth, the coinciding dominion where mansplaining reality confronts feminazi theory. A covfefe amphitheater revealing women not as chattel to be bought and sold.2017, Nathaniel Schmeling, Timing the Infinite, →ISBN:
- THEN A LITTLE SPRINKLE OF COVFEFE DUST. NOT EVEN TRUMP KNOW WHAT IN IT. […] AHHHH… TREMENDOUS TRUMP ALWAYS SAVE THE DAY.2018, Joe Dunn, “The Fecal Fiend”, in A Man-Child Covefe! (The Tremendous Trump), San Antonio, Tex.: Antarctic Press:
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- President Trump, I was not being delusional in calling him by the name in which he tweets out insults through a covfefe movement, as you will come to learn towards the end the use of this word, which no reasonable language can justify its meaning except to take each letter apart and turn them into our present indwelling shame that this president has brought upon the United States of America. […] For now, we look for truth, hope, and light, or some form of hope within these truths, and not covfefe, which is here taunting us to stay silent until calamity becomes America’s portion.2018, Najah Mahir, “Preface”, in The Ransom that Lies Demand: We the People and “Covfefe”, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages xv and xx:
- But he [Mike Pence]’s no Trump in any sense. […] The base respects Pence and his loyal service, but he just does not have the covfefe that the base needs and wants in 2024.2020, Kurt Schlichter, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 240:
- Covfefe, construed as a disruptive space, is a form of noise – a disturbance in the orderly sequence. […] So, even if much of the covfefe may appear as random ramblings, the disturbance as such still has political consequences and effects. The noise generated through covfefe becomes a crack in the dominant discourse, a crack that can be deepened through continued work.2020, Simon Lindgren, Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods, Polity Press, →ISBN:
- In the meantime, a battered and bruised capital has adjusted to life at a calmer pace, with quieter activities and words replacing the obscenities, characters and gibberish that used to shape how the [Trump] days were spent. Bagels over Bannon. Grandchildren over golf. Church over covfefe.2021 February 22, Katie Rogers, “Did Washington Just Have an Actual Weekend?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2021:
- Derived terms
- COVFEFE Act, Volfefe index