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Yoichi Oishi
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What does “covfete” exactly mean?

Washington Post (May 31, 2017) reports that President Trump targets “negative press “covfete” in his tweet:

MORNING MIX: Trump targets ‘negative press covfefe’ in garbled midnight tweet that becomes worldwide joke / Trump tweets ‘covfefe,’ inspiring a semi-comedic act of Congress

As I couldn’t find out the meaning of “covfete” in English dictionaries at hand, I googled the word. There was no heading and definition of this word there.

I heard a TV hostess asking a male guest what “covfete” mean in a TV show tagged in the Washinton Post, wherein he explained it’s Yedish meaning “go to bed.” But to me, this explanation doesn’t seem to fit the line, “President Trump targets “negative press “covfete.”

What does “covfete” exactly mean in the context of “President Trump targets “negative press “covfete”?

Yoichi Oishi
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