I am in agreement that it was intending to be "coverage", but that the follow-up response is what makes it worth discussing. If he had admitted to making a typo, then it would have been a complete non-issue. It was Trump's failed attempts at putting a deeper meaning behind a typo, in order to avoid admitting to the slightest mistake, that made it noteworthy.
>Off camera, at a press briefing later the same day, Sean Spicer responded to questions about the tweet that "the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant." No further explanation was given during the briefing. Some reporters, observing that Spicer did not appear to be joking, were concerned by the implications.
Yeah, I mean I really don't like Trump, but it's hard to believe this follow-up is anything but a joke, unless there were some more tweets I didn't see.
This is even better if you imagine it as him passing out and dropping the phone on his face, bouncing off his nose to get the 'fefe' and landing on his cheek to press send.
Yes. I found it strange and frustrating that most of the coverage of the tweet declined to point out this simplest possible explanation, instead helping render the non-story more distracting and inscrutable by not making this simple deductive leap.
There have been tweets/vids about it meaning "[I'm] still standing" or some such in Arabic --- my curiousity in the matter was too tiny to verify for myself =)