{"id":73730,"date":"2017-05-31T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73730"},"modified":"2017-05-31T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:14:04","slug":"trump-is-either-really-playing-with-their-heads-or-putting-out-coded-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73730","title":{"rendered":"Trump is either really playing with their heads or putting out coded info"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Bizarre Trump Midnight Tweet Sparks Twitter Trolling, Bewilderment, Mockery<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>after deleting the original tweet that kept much of Twitter, and most of the political media up all night, Trump followed up shortly after 6am with a tweet in which he tried a humorous spin on &#8220;covfefe&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Who can figure out the true meaning of &#8220;covfefe&#8221; ???\u00a0 Enjoy!&#8221; <\/em>Trump tweeted at 6:10am ET.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who can figure out the true meaning of &quot;covfefe&quot; ???  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/869858333477523458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Many were quick to ask just how many conspiracy theories Trump&#8217;s question would start.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s infamous late night tweeting appeared to finally cross into the twilight zone on Wednesday morning, when moments after midnight, president Trump sent out a bizarre unfinished tweet with a typo.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Despite the constant negative press covfefe,&#8221; Trump tweeted shortly after 12 a.m. E.T.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/05\/12\/covfefe.jpg\" width=\"501\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thirty minutes passed, then an hour, and the tweet remained undeleted, meanwhile the questions mounted. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/31\/us\/politics\/covfefe-trump-twitter.html?_r=0\">NYT pondered<\/a>, &#8220;had the president\u2019s lawyers, so eager to curb his stream-of-consciousness missives, tackled the commander in chief under the cover of night? Perhaps, some worried aloud, Mr. Trump had experienced a medical episode a quarter of the way through his 140 characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0No one at the White House could immediately be reached for comment. By 1 a.m., the debate had effectively consumed Twitter \u2014 or at least a certain segment of insomniac Beltway types, often journalists and political operatives \u2014 ascending the list of trending topics.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The tweet remained undeleted from Trump&#8217;s timeline for nearly 6 hours, and was deleted shortly before 6am ET, but not before sparking a firestorm of replies, with &#8220;covfefe&#8221; trending on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet had over 10,000 reactions by 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if this is it,\u201d asked Emily Nussbaum, the New Yorker television critic, after just five minutes. \u201cThat is his final tweet &amp; the rest of history stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s been five minutes. What if this is it. That is his final tweet &amp; the rest of history stops.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilynussbaum\/status\/869768656510746624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/emilynussbaum\/status\/869768656510746624\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"11\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded \n<p>                    is-deciderHtmlWhitespace\" cite=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/emilynussbaum\/status\/869768656510746624\" data-tweet-id=\"869768656510746624\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand u-floatRight\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--twitter \" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>Some appeared to temper their whimsy as a more sobering news story dominated the medium: a huge explosion shaking Kabul, leaving dozens dead or wounded. But the instinct to linger was powerful, for those who had glimpsed the initial post, even if they did not seem entirely sure why they were still awake.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eventually, the jokes lurched into delirium. Twitter users held forth on the former F.B.I. director James Covfefe. They pledged to order a grande covfefe during their next Starbucks runs. They announced they had at last discovered what Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of \u201cLost in Translation.\u201d Some speculated this was America&#8217;s nuclear code.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-31\/bizarre-trump-midnight-tweet-sparks-twitter-trolling-bewilderment-mockery\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-31\/bizarre-trump-midnight-tweet-sparks-twitter-trolling-bewilderment-mockery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre Trump Midnight Tweet Sparks Twitter Trolling, Bewilderment, Mockery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}