Trolling Trump ahead of his fundraising visit, St. Paul mayor invites city to community lunch

Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press
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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 at noon.

“People are calling our community lunch the best lunch they’ve ever seen!” Carter wrote Thursday, copying the bombastic social media style as former President Donald Trump, the presumed 2024 Republican nominee who is scheduled to attend a party fundraising dinner Friday evening at the downtown RiverCentre.

“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 editing.

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.

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