--- title: Covfefe: Hillary Clinton Tweets Back at Donald Trump description: Hillary Clinton tweeted back at Donald Trump after the President called her "a terrible candidate" canonical: https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/ author: Ryan Kilpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-01T04:20:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:04:57.849Z og:title: Clinton Goes Tweet-to-Tweet with Trump Over 'Covfefe' og:description: Hillary Clinton has some 'covfefe' of her own og:url: https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5c5965d354580af/6988cfb597cdffa1076b0f5b/gettyimages-678108042.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Ms. Foundation For Women 2017 Gloria Awards Gala & After Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton Goes Tweet-to-Tweet with Trump Over 'Covfefe' twitter:description: Hillary Clinton has some 'covfefe' of her own twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5c5965d354580af/6988cfb597cdffa1076b0f5b/gettyimages-678108042.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Goes Tweet-to-Tweet with President Trump Over 'Covfefe' > Sponsored content. 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President Trump mystified the world at precisely 12:06am Wednesday morning when he tweeted a new word._ by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Jun 1, 2017 4:20 AM UTC President Trump mystified the world at precisely 12:06am Wednesday morning when he tweeted a new word. by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Jun 1, 2017 4:20 AM UTC Hillary Clinton responded in kind to President Donald Trump Wednesday after the President said on Twitter that Clinton was “a terrible candidate” who “now blames everybody but herself” for her unsuccessful presidential bid. “People in covfefe houses shouldn’t throw covfefe,” Clinton replied, quoting the President’s pronouncement and referencing the nonsensical phrase Trump tweeted without explanation around midnight on Tuesday. Trump’s initial tweet has since been [deleted](http://time.com/4799145/donald-trump-covfefe-meme/), but it’s contents have [already been immortalized ](http://time.com/4799053/donald-trump-covfefe-twitter/)in Internet memes. The comical exchange started after a question-and-answer session at the Code tech conference in California, during which Clinton criticized the Democratic National Committee’s handling of its data operations. During the session, Clinton also responded to Trump’s confusing “covfefe” tweet, suggesting that it may have been a “hidden message to the Russians.” Trump soon after tweeted that Clinton was deflecting the blame for her loss. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/870077441401905152) It didn’t take long for Clinton to respond with a tweet of her own. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/870090101765931008) At time of writing, Clinton’s tweet had been retweeted by almost 100,000 users. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Goes Tweet-to-Tweet with President Trump Over 'Covfefe'","datePublished":"2017-06-01T04:20:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T09:04:57.849Z","description":"Trump called Clinton a \"terrible candidate.\" Here's how she responded","url":"https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/","keywords":["Newsfeed","hillary clinton","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5c5965d354580af/6988cfb597cdffa1076b0f5b/gettyimages-678108042.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Kilpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5c5965d354580af/6988cfb597cdffa1076b0f5b/gettyimages-678108042.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ms. Foundation For Women 2017 Gloria Awards Gala & After Party","caption":"Ms. Foundation For Women 2017 Gloria Awards Gala & After Party","creditText":"Astrid Stawiarz—Getty Images/Foundation for Women","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/","name":"Hillary Clinton Goes Tweet-to-Tweet with President Trump Over 'Covfefe'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'Covfefe' Conquers Twitter After Trump's Confounding Tweet","description":"President Trump mystified the world at precisely 12:06am Wednesday morning when he tweeted a new word.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3MaQXUjE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-05-31T13:57:17.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3MaQXUjE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/","duration":"PT1M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4800636/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-covfefe/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```