Seriously, what even happened at that Donald Trump press conference

"No. No. Next."
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President Trump took questions from the media Thursday at a joint press conference with Colombia's president after a whirlwind week filled with scoops and explosive news items galore.

As usual, it resulted in all kinds of weirdness.

To start, a reporter took advantage of the rare occasion to ask what everyone wants to know, even if it had nothing to do with the Colombian president's visit and purpose of the media briefing: Did Trump ask former FBI director James Comey to back down on his investigation of Michael Flynn?

But before the reporter, ABC News' chief political correspondent Scott Thuman, could even finish his sentence, Trump cut him off. "No. No. Next question," he said.

That sounded to some like a denial of a New York Times report that said Comey took written account of a conversation with the president in which he asked him to back off.

"No. No. Next" quickly starting trending on Twitter.

But Trump's "no" is, of course, up for interpretation. Trump could have been answering directly to the reporter's question, saying something to the effect of, "No, I didn't tell Comey to back off Flynn." Or the "no" could have been a quick interjection to cut off the reporter and let him know that that question wasn't going to fly.

Either way, people were having fun poking at Trump's quick outburst.

That wasn't the only memeable moment. While talking about drug trafficking and production, Trump said the two nations needed to confront the dangerous cultivation of "cocoa."

It appeared to be a mispronunciation of the coca plant, which is where cocaine comes from. It does not, in fact, come from the cocoa bean. That’s where delicious chocolate comes from — like the kind in the "most beautiful" cake Trump was eating while telling President Xi Jinping how he bombed some country or other.

All in a day's press conference. Here's the full video, if you're into that kind of thing.

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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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