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What does 'COVFEFE' mean? Try rising military morale
American Thinker.com ^ | June 25, 2017 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/25/2017 4:12:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

Now here's a photo from our U.S. armed forces in the field worth a look:

It's an M109 self-propelled tank from an undisclosed field location, bearing President Trump's cryptic Twitter typo, COVFEFE, according to the Daily Caller, which ran the picture yesterday. COVFEFE was the subject of much speculation, mostly on the left, as to what it might have meant. In this case, one of the troops has helpfully given the answer: rising military morale. You never saw such repetitions of presidential words during the Obama administration. Did anyone ever stamp 'You didn't build that' or 'If you like your health care' on one of the barrels of a howitzer?

It comes against the backdrop of two things.

One, military morale has been disastrously low, with the military rating the legacy of Commander in Chief Obama in acidic terms across every service. Morale reached a rock bottom low in 2015 with 52% of the troops across all branches "pessimistic about their future," and 70% expecting it to get even worse, representing a 30-point plunge since Obama came to office, according to a Military Times poll. That was after the military spent $287 million during six of the Obama years on an "optimism program." Go figure that one out - sweet deal for some NGO sociology-majors probably. The various analysts of this survey cited bad pay, troop drawdowns, lack of support from Washington in the deployments in hellholes like Afghanistan and Iraq, and micromanaging of field decisions from the lawyers and White House petty officials. But most of all, there was commander-in-chief who didn't believe in their mission - and who didn't believe in victory. He just preferred to let the wars slog on and the soldiers pay the price.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: covfefe; dod; military; trump
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1 posted on 06/25/2017 4:12:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It’s not a tank....


2 posted on 06/25/2017 4:14:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s a simple typo and folks trying to make it more than that are silly.

That’s the nicest term I can come up with.


3 posted on 06/25/2017 4:15:08 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: mewzilla

“Self propelled tank” is a redundancy.


4 posted on 06/25/2017 4:15:11 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Kaslin

Operation COVFEFE.


5 posted on 06/25/2017 4:16:02 PM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: NorthMountain

IIRC, the author of the original article corrected it after publishing it. I gather the hardware is a self-propelled howitzer.


6 posted on 06/25/2017 4:16:55 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

Regardless that the author doesn’t know what self propelled artillery is (and that it’s not the same thing as tanks), it’s cool that the crew would stencil “covfefe” on their gun. No way in hell would they have stenciled any of 0bama’s gibberish on it.


7 posted on 06/25/2017 4:17:04 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: NorthMountain

Not if it throws a track!


8 posted on 06/25/2017 4:18:16 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Kaslin
What does 'COVFEFE' mean?

It means "I will stand" in Arabic.

It also is an acronym:

Comey
Obviously
Violated
FBI
Ethics
Fabricating
Evidence

9 posted on 06/25/2017 4:18:29 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: NorthMountain

Not in Switzerland; -)


10 posted on 06/25/2017 4:19:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Kaslin
bearing President Trump's cryptic Twitter typo, COVFEFE,

Not a typo. Arabic for "I will stand up." Dodoes.
11 posted on 06/25/2017 4:19:54 PM PDT by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: Kaslin
The Covfefe phenomenon has not yet run out of steam. People are getting it tattooed to their bodies. The vanity license plates in various states have already been requested. People are writing "covfefe" on dollar bills to show their support for Trump. Skywriters have been hired to write it in the sky. Now people are having their names legally changed to Covfefe. It's really an amazing phenomenon.

Who knows what kind of catchphrase President Trump will tweet out next but it's coming.


12 posted on 06/25/2017 4:20:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: NorthMountain

Well, I just hope whoever did it doesn’t come in for the same ration of excrement that the personnel flying that flag on their vehicle did a while back.


13 posted on 06/25/2017 4:20:50 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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14 posted on 06/25/2017 4:22:44 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

Better picture (full view) at The Daily Caller:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/23/army-tank-has-covfefe-stamped-on-the-gun-photo/

Page down about half-way.


15 posted on 06/25/2017 4:23:18 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Kaslin

“Despite the constant negative press covfefe,”

I do not see how anyone can get “covfefe” as a typo! Even of one did, one’s spell-checker would rapidly turn it into “coffee”!!!!

Form context, “covfefe” means negative and fakey CNN-style anti-Trump propaganda!!!! That all it is!!!!

“Covfefe” is now a new American English word! I’m sure that our President will coin others in the future!!!!


16 posted on 06/25/2017 4:23:21 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,

NEVER MISUNDERESTIMATE THE COVFEFE!


17 posted on 06/25/2017 4:24:13 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Kaslin
Nobody put up signs under Obama's regime, but there WAS one memorable one addressed to John Effin. Not exactly in the same spirit as the "Covfefe" stencil...


18 posted on 06/25/2017 4:25:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: mewzilla

Agree. Gotta let the troops have some fun.


19 posted on 06/25/2017 4:25:52 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: humblegunner

Yes it is a typo. All they have to do is look at their keyboard. The president probably meant to type “cover” but went from c o v e to the letter f and then back to the e again. At least that is what I think


20 posted on 06/25/2017 4:27:54 PM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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