'We broke Donald Trump': Gavin Newsom shades POTUS as cryptic 'bela' post sparks covfefe flashback

WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump has many scratching their heads once again after dropping another mystery word on social media.

The POTUS randomly posted the word "bela" on Truth Social at exactly 8.31 am on August 17. If spelled with a double L, “bella,” it would mean “beautiful” in Italian. But with just one L, it sparked widespread confusion.

The post came just minutes after Trump had written, “BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA. STAY TUNED.”

He had just wrapped up a high-stakes sit-down in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The summit ended without a ceasefire deal in Ukraine, but Trump has floated plans for a trilateral meeting involving Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

Gavin Newsom and Lincoln Project seize the moment

While Donald Trump kept it cryptic, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office didn’t miss the chance to pounce. “We broke Donald Trump,” Newsom’s team sniped in response to the “bela” post. 

Earlier, they had already taken jabs at the president, mocking him with references to his “tiny hands” and seemingly egging him into a social media brawl.

Meanwhile, the Trump-loathing conservative group The Lincoln Project declared Trump’s post the sequel to his infamous 2017 gaffe. “Wake up babe, new Covfefe just dropped," they quipped.

Social media spins theories on Trump’s ‘bela’

Back in 2017, Donald Trump’s baffling midnight “covfefe” tweet left the world flummoxed, debating whether it was a typo, a code word, or something else entirely.

Longtime Trump critic George Conway couldn’t resist. He called “bela” a “blend” of “covfefe.”

Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla) piled on with his own punchline: “That’s what we call Comer,” he wrote, taking a swipe at House Oversight Chair Rep James Comer (R-Ky). Others chimed in with their own theories, including speculation that Trump was typing “Belarus” and got cut off.

One user scripted a fake conversation between Trump and Vladimir Putin: “Trump: Please don’t release the Kompromat on me. Putin: Then let us take over Ukraine! Trump: Ok let me think about it. Putin: You have until tomorrow. Just tweet ‘Bela’ so I know the deal is on. Otherwise, the videos will be released,” they wrote.

Another user pointed out that in Eastern Europe, Bela is actually a card game “where you shout it when you play the King and Queen of trumps together. It’s the strongest pair, and you only get the points if you announce it out loud.”

“That timing matters. He posted it right after Putin briefed Belarus’s Lukashenko on their summit. If symbolic, it could mean a new power alliance being put on the table,” they speculated.  

Trump’s ‘bela’ post fuels a crypto meme frenzy

It’s worth noting that Trump’s cryptic “bela” spawned a wave of meme cryptocurrencies almost instantly. By August 17, obscure tokens were already shooting up the charts.

A Solana-based Bela coin jumped more than 184% in 24 hours, reaching a market cap of roughly $245,000, according to CoinMarketCap. The site stamped it with a big “High Risk” warning, urging traders to tread carefully.

Another Solana DEX token also spiked, soaring 128% to a market value of about $182,400, with nearly $10 million in trading volume in a single day.

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