Poor Sean Spicer. Once again, rather than using the daily White House Press Briefing to emphasize the administration’s agenda and talking points for the day, Spicer today had to explain Donald Trump’s tweets. And good luck explaining Trump’s late night “covfefe” tweet.
After getting a question about the “incoherent tweet,” and why it stayed up for so long before being deleted, here’s what Spicer said, according to Raw Story and the accompanying audio:
No, I, I think the, the, uh, the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.
As you can hear, the reaction by the reporters to Spicer’s statement was an explosion of laughter, someone exclaiming “wait a minute!”, and shouting of follow-up questions such as, “what did the president mean?” and the classic “what is ‘covfefe’?” Spicer declined to elaborate.
The writer at Raw Story (who also posted the audio clip on YouTube) did get one thing wrong: he wrote that “Sean Spicer insists Trump didn't misspell 'covfefe' tweet.” That’s not quite true. According to the clip, Spicer wasn’t talking about spelling, only comprehension.
Nevertheless, after Trump’s White House Communications Director has resigned, the new White House communications strategy going forward is apparently “the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.” That doesn’t exactly sound like a recipe for success.