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The Covfefe Shot

Who could forget Drumpf's infamous "Covfefe" tweet?? Covfefe, the scandal: First of all, May 2017 feels somehow simultaneously like it was a million years ago, and also like it was just yesterday. Do you know what I mean? It is the perfect encapsulation of how Trump's presidency has compressed time. POTUS's half-asleep Twitter gaffe became an immediate global scandal. Looking back, it's hard to understand why. I mean, yes, he's President of the United States, so his every utterance and tweet is meaningful by definition. But of course  this tweet was an Ambien-induced mistake. Of course  there is no meaning behind the autocorrect created non-word "covfefe." But the entire world mulled over its meaning anyway. And President Thin-Skin played it off like he meant to tweet it. Because of course he did. When I set out to make a Covfefe-inspired shot I endeavored to represent all of the elements of this non-scandal by creating a shot that...