# @seanmspicer on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8ZHy4LAW9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13320492-seanmspicer-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-04-29T17:38:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sean Spicer (@seanmspicer) — https://gondola.cc/seanmspicer

## Caption

Who could forget #COVFEFE? Definitely
not me.
Welcome back Mr President. #ICYMI the story behind #covfefe going viral from #TheBriefing:

Trump’s opinions on controversial issues were pretty transparent. Anyone who wanted to know what he was thinking only had to read his tweets. Keeping an eye out for his early morning, late-night, and weekend tweets was part of my new world order. I soon learned that there were two kinds of Trump tweets. There were the early morning and late-night tweets that were pure and unfiltered Trump when he had no staff around him. Then there were the business-hour tweets that were filtered through or drafted by the social media director, Dan Scavino. The former often caused me trouble because the press would latch onto any statements they saw as potentially embarrassing or controversial. The latter, on the other hand, were typically incisive and confronta- tional, but constructive. Dan Scavino was an invaluable editor for Trump, but he couldn’t be on call twenty-four hours a day. One exam- ple of a late-night tweet that got a lot of media, but was really rather harmless and amusing, was this famous fragment, issued at 12:06 a.m. from the president: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” 

I assumed he meant “coverage,” and his thumbs simply hit the wrong button. But the minute I saw it, I said to myself, “Oh brother, here we go.” I would later see how even the most trivial events could go viral in the media. I later assured reporters in the most serious tone, “Only the president and other select people know what that means.”

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icymi, thebriefing, covfefe

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