Finding the Covfefe translation "Easter egg" was Zach Vorhies's breaking point at Google - Trump actually tweeted, "Despite the constant negative press I will stand up" In this interview Zach walks us through the actions taken at Google to delete "covfefe" from their dictionary solely for political purposes to help frame the President as crazy.   Prior to Trump’s “Covfefe” twat, Google translate was programmed to output “I will stand up” when converting covfefe from Arabic to English. But after Trump's tweet and staying inline with a New York Times story, Google executives directed programmers to write an Easter egg to translate covfefe into the shrug man ¯\(ツ)/¯ Emoji. It was not a simple one step task as after the first attempt to reprogram the translate AI was still able to by pass it to provide a good translation. The AI was actually inhibiting Google from manipulating the translation. So it too had to be disabled. This task was assigned to the Google team named for the post-modernism Philosopher Derride, a person who aimed to destroy western civilization. (Jacques Derrida wiki) The people on this team are true believers, in every sense of the word. Zach Vorhies about halfway into today's interview with Tiffany FitzHenry When Trump tweeted, "Despite the constant negative press Covfefe", he actually tweeted: "Despite the constant negative press “I will stand up” "