Welcome to 2017, the year where literally anything can happen, apparently. If you thought that America under Donald Trump couldn't get more interesting then you'd be wrong.
The world was let scratching its head when a late-night tweet from the US President read: "Despite the negative press covfefe."
The tweet was deleted five hours later, but by then it had been retweeted over 124,000 times, liked 157,000 times and had 40,000 replies - by far the most popular tweet of the American President's Twitter history.
After removing the tweet, he then said:
Look, I'm sure he meant to say 'coverage' but stuffed up and accidentally posted the spelling mistake. But White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed that: "The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."
Well now the word will be immortalised into US legislation. Democratic congressman Mike Quigley has introduced the Covfefe Act - which aims to officially record any social media posts made by the president.
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What amazes me most is that Quigely has actually come up with an anagram for the word. In a statement, he says that it means Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement or 'COVFEFE' Act.
He adds: "In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets. President Trump's frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account as a means of official communication is unprecedented.
Congressman Mike Quigley. Credit: PA
"If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference. Tweets are powerful, and the President must be held accountable for every post."
The current Presidential Records Acts already archives everything from the @POSTUS account, but as many of us know, Trump prefers to post his opinions from his personal account. Now every tweet, regardless of whether it's misspelled or not, will be preserved.
It's not the only act that Quigley has introduced to directly target the president. In March, he submitted the MAR-A-LAGO Act or the Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act. The anagram is a nod to the president's Florida property - and aims to have White House visitor logs published.
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