{"id":22061,"date":"2017-05-31T21:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22061"},"modified":"2017-05-31T21:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:46:47","slug":"why-not-explain-covfefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22061","title":{"rendered":"Why not explain &#8216;covfefe&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22065\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-5-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-5-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-5.png 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s &#8220;covfefe&#8221; tweet has detonated the Twitterverse.<\/p>\n<p>Social media of all stripes also have exploded with commentary, questions, bewilderment and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to center on this fundamental question: What in the world was the president of the United States meaning when he wrote: &#8220;Despite the constant negative press covfefe&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of one of the many failings of the Trump White House communications team. It cannot &#8212; or will not &#8212; offer a simple explanation of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Did the president hit the &#8220;send&#8221; button prematurely?<\/p>\n<p>Did he get distracted?<\/p>\n<p>Was it just a damn mistake?<\/p>\n<p>The White House flacks won&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait! Maybe their reticence might have something to do with related questions that an answer might generate.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t anyone vet the president?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t anyone counsel him against using Twitter?<\/p>\n<p>Does the president even listen, or care, what his advisers are telling him?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the chaos continues.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s &#8220;covfefe&#8221; tweet has detonated the Twitterverse. Social media of all stripes also have exploded with commentary, questions, bewilderment and confusion. It seems to center on this fundamental question: What in the world was the president of the United States meaning when he wrote: &#8220;Despite the constant negative press covfefe&#8221;? This is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why not explain &#8216;covfefe&#8217;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[7122,1424,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-22061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-covfefe","tag-donald-trump","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22066,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions\/22066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}