Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Donald Trump baffles world again with absolutely nonsense tweet including a word that isn't a word

The President started an interesting and entirely baffling trend

       Thousands of social media users have rallied together to make the most of the unfortunate mistake on the President's Twitter feed - and he can't delete it.

In true Donald Trump style, the President of the United States has triumphed on Twitter once again.

Much to the pleasure of his followers, thousands of Twitter users were stumped when he posted a baffling update to his feed.
Just six words in his latest Tweet have given immeasurable joy to some as they made the most of his unfortunate mistake.
The president posted: "Despite the constant negative press covfefe".
If some were searching for context to the odd morning update, then there wasn't a scrap in sight.
President Donald Trump 
But surely with aides, a huge staff that comes with being leader of the free world, someone might offer Trump a heads up and quickly rectify his mistake?
You would think.
Oddly, the Tweet remained up long enough for exactly 48,000 people to retweet and 58,000 to live.
It has also sparked some brilliant debate and responses.
The odd spelling error in a text after a night out is normal.
Whereas most of us are likely to be speaking to one person however, Trump speaks to 31 million.
BenDavid Grabinski really went to town.
He followed his initial tweet up with the likes of: "13 minutes and the tweet is still up. Are you barricaded in your room with several bags of McDonalds and self-loathing?"
And: "Did you fall asleep on the toilet again?"
Some saw a business opportunity
After a spectacular hour and a half live, Andy Juett saw it as too good an opportunity to pass up and rolled out the idea of getting it printed on t-shirts.
After more than an hour of being live on his Twitter feed, Trump's gaffe started trending.
Joe Papp took a screenshot of the odd word "covfefe" at the top of his trending list, adding: "this is so funny".
The trend description accurately summed up what thousands were thinking - "the mystery of Trump's covfefe"
Some started heated debate
Some truly embraced all that was great about this tweet and started debating how to accurately pronounce the word.
Overall, it wasn't the best morning for Trump.
While most of us could simply delete a tweet and upload one that actually made sense, things aren't that simple for the president.
Although it does depend on the nature of the Tweet, online activity such as Twitter updates can count as presidential records.
The Presidential Records Act 1978 means all books, correspondence, memoranda, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photos, maps, films, audio and visual records including electronic or mechanical recordings should not be removed.
Oh dear.

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