En analytiker for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Philip Bump, skrev i juli 2019, at covfefe-tweetet repræsenterede præsident Trumps nægtelse af at indrømme mindre fejlagtige udtalelser.<ref>{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/05/problem-with-trumps-revolutionary-war-airports-isnt-airports/|title=The problem with Trump's Revolutionary War airports isn't the airports|last=Philip Bump|date=5. juli 2019|work=The Washington Post|access-date=9. september 2019|quote=This inability to admit misstatements has no more extreme example than his infamous "covfefe" tweet from 2017.}}</ref> Andre Trump-kritikere i medierne udtrykte lignende meninger.<ref>{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/trumps-pointless-lie-hurricane-dorian-and-alabama/597469/|title=Trump's Most Pointless Lie|last=David A. Graham|date=5. september 2019|work=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=9. september 2019|quote=Not since "covfefe," a similarly absurdist episode, has Trump stuck so insistently to a pointless lie, though even that moment was over faster.}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://www.al.com/news/2019/09/trumps-alabama-dorian-debacle-shows-he-refuses-to-be-wrong.html|title=Trump's Alabama Dorian debacle shows he refuses to be wrong|date=6. september 2019|work=[[al.com]]|access-date=9. september 2019|agency=Associated Press|quote=And even when Trump mistakenly tweeted the nonsensical word "covfefe" late one night, the president, instead of owning up to a typo or errant message, later sent Spicer to declare, "I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."}}</ref>
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