In a rare tweet ‘like,’ Trump hearts Rihanna

Our president is known far and wide for his patented tweet-storms. He tweets in the morning over Fox and Friends, he tweets in the evening over Hannity, he tweets in the wee hours of the night over grievances large and small.

But Donald Trump doesn’t “like” other people’s tweets too often. In fact it had been almost two years since he had done it — until early Wednesday morning, around 12:40 a.m., according to the @TrumpsAlert Twitter account, which is a bot that automatically notes whenever the president, his family or his close advisers like, retweet, follow or unfollow.

In this case, Trump’s Twitter account liked a tweet by Heben Nigatu, a former writer with “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” podcaster with BuzzFeed News, and currently a writer on Showtime’s “Desus and Mero” show.

Nigatu was highlighting an interview with the pop star Rihanna in Interview Magazine, providing a link and the comment, “Every new Rihanna interview makes me grow stronger. We stan a work/life balance queen!!!” She also provided a picture of the particular part of the Rihanna interview in which the “Work” and “Umbrella” singer advocated taking some me time.

Before that, the most recent like on Trump’s Twitter account was from Sept. 1, 2017, when he liked a tweet that said he wasn’t “Presidential material.”

Why did Trump decide to like the post about Rihanna? Was he making a statement about his own me time? Did he even mean to? Is this just another “covfefe” moment?

We have no idea what is going on. Neither, apparently, does Nigatu, as she tweeted upon learning of the president’s like, “WHAT IS HAPPENING.”

No word yet from Trump. Or RiRi.

JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY For the first time in almost two years, Donald Trump liked a tweet — and it was that of a former writer with “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” who was pointing out a Rihanna quote advocating that people set aside some time for themselves.