During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the crowd that Trump’s bizarre “covfefe” tweet was not only intentional, but that it made perfect sense to a small group of people. This man is so far in denial that he couldn’t even muster the excuse of it being a simple typo. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Transcript:
Farron:
Most of the news yesterday was focused squarely on Donald Trump’s “Covfefe” tweet. Of course, when the press pool gathered to talk with Sean Spicer yesterday, Sean Spicer, of course, had to answer a question about “Covfefe.” What’s really interesting here with Sean Spicer’s response to what the President actually meant in this tweet. Take a look.
Sean Spicer:
Hunter.
Hunter:
Thank you, Sean. Do you think people should be concerned that the President then posted somewhat of an incoherent tweet last night, and that it then stayed up for hours?
Sean Spicer:
No.
Hunter:
Why did it stay up so long? Is no one watching this?
Sean Spicer:
No, I think the President and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.
Blake.
Speaker 1:
What is “Covfefe?”
Speaker 2:
What did he mean?
Speaker 1:
What does he mean?
Sean Spicer:
Blake.
Speaker 2:
What does the President mean?
Sean Spicer:
Blake.
Speaker 3:
Thanks, I want to go to Paris for-
Speaker 1:
What is “Covfefe?”
Sean Spicer:
Blake.
Speaker 2:
No, but-
Sean Spicer:
Blake.
Speaker 4:
Does this tweet speak for itself?
Farron:
“The President and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.” Now, Spicer could have said, “Yeah, it was a typo. Those things happen. President typed it, didn’t realize it, sent it, went to bed, woke up the next morning, saw it and was like, ‘Oh, my God! Get rid of it.'” Could have been something like that. He could have laughed it off. He could have made everyone in the room laugh with him. Everybody’s made typos online. But instead, Sean Spicer decides to double down on this ridiculous tweet and say that there are some people that knew exactly what “Covfefe” meant.
Sean Spicer is so, I guess, ingrained within the Trump administration that he refuses to even admit that his boss made a typo. A very public typo. A typo that people all around the world are now laughing at us because of. Sean Spicer could have easily defused this entire situation. Instead, he was laughed at during that press gathering yesterday because he refuses to admit that his boss, Donald Trump, can do anything wrong. In his eyes, everything the President says or does is correct, including inventing a word on Twitter.
Now, we understand that Donald Trump, obviously, meant, “Despite all the negative press coverage;” but he had the typo, he sent the tweet out, he didn’t fix it immediately and everybody jumped on that. That’s fine. That happens. Some of us don’t catch those things as quickly, but for Sean Spicer to sit at that podium, tell reporters in that room that, “Nope, this is what he meant to do and there are some people who understood it,” just takes this to a whole-new level of, I guess, cover-up.
I mean, why would Sean Spicer come out there any actually lie about “Covfefe?” You could have said it was a typo. You could have said the President didn’t notice it until the next morning and he was really embarrassed. It’s okay. It’s okay to show that Donald Trump has a human emotion like embarrassment, but instead, you were the loyal toady that you always are. You came out, acted as Trump’s lackey and you got laughed at because of it. How does that make you feel, Sean? That you’re being ridiculed because you are so ingrained within the Trump administration that you refuse to admit that this man did something incorrect, or that he had a typo. Instead, you tell us that there were plenty of people out there who completely understood it, this was a normal tweet, let’s move on to the next question. That’s not how it works, Sean.
Now, I know, again, this was a typo. This doesn’t mean Donald Trump had a stroke while he was typing his twitter, but there’s plenty of people out there using this specific tweet as speculation that there’s something wrong with the President. Instead of making that better, instead of putting all of that to rest, all you did, Spicer, was feed the talk that there might be something mentally wrong with Donald Trump. That’s on you now, buddy. You could have been honest with the public, but more importantly, you could have been honest with yourself. Instead, you once again diminished your own credibility by telling us that there are too many, or I guess, plenty of people in this country who know full well what “Covfefe” really is.
