Speaking on Wednesday, Clinton said that she believes Trump uses his erratic Twitter presence to draw attention away from his administration’s harmful policies, describing this kind of distraction technique as a “classic authoritarian” tactic.

“It’s like ‘covfefe’ – trending worldwide!” she said at Recode’s Code Conference in California.

“Maybe for a minute you'll forget about [the White House] conspiring with Russia, or the trillion-dollar mathematical mistake in their budget, or depriving 23 million of health care.

“It’s the circus, right? It's what a classic authoritarian does.”

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, meanwhile, has attempted to explain ‘covfefe’ with the following statement: “I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.”

He declined to elaborate any further.

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