The tweet should have read: "Despite negative press coverage,"

[skip fox]

but he drifted off.

Then remaining letters of "covfefe," "f," "e," "f", and "e" are all in a bundle on a keyboard for the left hand and are close to the letters ("e," "r," "a," "g," and "e&quot .

He obviously drifted off after "v."

[blogslut]

1. And then what?

Was it a continuation of the previous tweet? If he fell asleep after typing that, then who clicked the TWEET BUTTON?

[Orrex]

2. Funny that he still managed to post it, then.

You know, being asleep and whatnot.

[skip fox]

7. How is this hard to figure?

He's continuing another thought then, drifting off, finishes what he thinks is a word, and hits the tweet button.

[Orrex]

8. That's even worse than if he tweeted "covfefe" on purpose

Your explanation is not far-fetched, but so what?

If Obama had done it, McConnell would already be on the Senate floor calling for the 25th Amendment on grounds that the President is clearly incompetent.

[skip fox]

11. Right.

I'm just clarifying what happened in fact, not making a judgment.

(If you want my judgments, click on my journal and see 1,000 CAPTIONs, many of PresiDented Trump.)

[JTFrog]

13. You are clarifying what you THINK happened.

You are entitled to that opinion, but we all know you weren't there so you have no idea if it's fact.

Someone could have taken the phone away mid tweet. Someone could have walked in on him tweeting and could have startled him and he hit buttons and posted while hiding his phone.

So many things could have happened. So don't expect everyone to just agree with you. It is a discussion board after all.

[skip fox]

14. Of course,

this is what I THINK happened. But it is simple, clear, likely, and it explains all the facts.

Can you come up with a better explanation? Remember, it has to be likely.

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Again, the most likely scenario:

Trump is in bed, tired and foggy.

He thinks he is beginning a sentence "Despite negative press coverage" and then initially planned to add an independent clause like: "my administration has accomplished more than any other in the first 120 days."

But he begins falling asleep 1/2 through "coverage" and types "covfefe" instead. Then, thinking this is the end of his thoughts (imagining in his drifting off mind that he already had typed the independent clause), he hits the send button and enters slumberland.

It seems pretty clear.

[7wo7rees]

3. Spicey told you so? Enquiring minds want to know. nt

[skip fox]

6. Have a better read?

[Missn-Hitch]

4. WTF? Unbelievable. If written. Believable with this menace as POTUS.

[Madam45for2923]

5. Could it be he doesn't know how to spell the word and went by the sound?

[MoonRiver]

9. Yes

I've seen it many times among children with reading learning disabilities. Not that particular word, but they tend to spell by sound, as they have trouble mastering phonics and sight word memory.

[skip fox]

10. The scenario:

Trump is in bed, tired and foggy.

He thinks he is beginning a sentence "Despite negative press coverage" and then initially planned to add an independent clause like: "my administration has accomplished more than any other in the first 120 days."

But he begins falling asleep 1/2 through "coverage" and types "covfefe" instead. Then, thinking this is the end of his thoughts (imagining in his drifting off mind that he already had typed the independent clause), he hits the send button and enters slumberland.

It seems pretty clear.

[Donkees]

12. covfefe 'curfuffle' :)

Scots curfuffle < cur- (< Scots Gaelic car ‘to twist, turn’ < Old Irish cor ‘a turn’) + fuffle ‘to disorder, confuse’ (of imitative origin)

[WinkyDink]

15. He didn't proofread out of temper, IMO. Responses were having fun.

[skip fox]

16. I assumed it was pretty obvious, but

I saw no one mentioning it.

(And then note the objections to the obvious in responses above. Maybe everyone didn't get it.)

[annabanana]

17. This really is most probable intention...

Anyone over-parsing it has too much time on their hands.

It's funny but not especially important.

[skip fox]

18. Right on all scores, but

maybe it's important in that it's not evidence of his derangement.

(There's plenty of that elsewhere.)

[Motley13]

19. it took him 6 hrs to delete it, so he probably did fall asleep

it was around midnight