My theory: Trump was composing therapeutic poetry, and got stuck on the last line.

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• Perhaps covfefe is a verb, and the sentence is imperative, directed at the press, and "Despite the negative" is a subordinate clause, and "press" is part of a classical apostrophe, like "O happy dagger."

  In that case, perhaps we can understand the tweet to mean "Despite the negative [things I tweet about you] [, O members of the press,] covfefe."

  And if that is true, then perhaps we can interpret "covfefe" as an exhortation for the members of the press to keep doing what they are dong.

• "My hands are not small."

• "I am still in charge."