16 May 2024
Tongue at least ever so slightly in cheek, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter took to social media this week to invite the city out on Friday to Lowertown’s Mears Park, where food trucks will be selling lunch.
“People are calling our community lunch the best lunch they’ve ever seen!” wrote Carter on Thursday, copying the bombastic social media style as former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to attend a Republican fundraising dinner in the capital city Friday evening.
“The BEST people and the BEST food trucks ok and by the way more people than that other event Friday! Only St. Paul can throw a lunch like this so be there ‘cause frankly IT’S GOING TO BE BIGLY! #Covfefe”
The mayor’s hashtag is a familiar one to meme-lovers. At 12:06 a.m. on May 31, 2017, then-president Trump tweeted six words — “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” — ending his social media post unintelligibly, without further explanation or edit.
The “Covfefe” reference instantly became the subject of countless Internet memes and even the name of a federal bill, the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act (COVFEFE Act), introduced by Democrats later that year, aimed at preserving presidential Tweets and social media posts for posterity in the Information Age.
Mears Park is located at 221 Fifth St. E. The lunch begins at noon.
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