Make America Great Again Memes of 2017

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If there'south a single word that sums up the starting time 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, it would take to be memeable. Not the word you lot would've chosen? Not fifty-fifty adiscussion, period? Psh. Sounds like fake news.

To marking Trump'south commencement three-plus months as an elected official, we've collected the best memes his finely tuned administration has inspired so far -- it seems nigh every morning brought news of a freshly chilly meme, and it's a safe bet that many more will rise in the 1,362 days leading up to the 2021 inauguration.

I Have Never Been to Prague in My Life

Early in January, BuzzFeed published a dossier alleging that i of Trump'south attorneys, Michael Cohen, met with Kremlin officials in Prague. Cohen'southward response: a sick shut-upward of the front of his passport. The randomness of the rebuttal has inspired countless copycat uploads -- all of which make roughly the aforementioned amount of sense.

Make America Cracking Once more

Trump understood America in 2016 meliorate than most people causeless, and his official campaign slogan is the chief example of Trump'southward memeability in an age of memes. He slapped it on those signature red hats, tweeted with the #MAGA hashtag, shouted information technology at rallies like an aging arena rocker playing his biggest hit. It embodies the spirit of Trump's existence: a malleable putty capable of both a coherent winning strategy and a simpleton'due south reductionist worldview. MAGA is the ultimate Trump meme.

Faux News

Ah, fake news, what would we exist without ye? What began as a centrist Democratic whine -- Fake NEWS on Facebook swung the ballot in Trump's favor, it's the only caption! -- chop-chop and predictably became co-opted by Trump and his crew to refer to any media coverage they didn't like. CNN? Fake news. The New York Times? Fake news. Frederick Douglass' death? Fake, simulated, fake news. Now every denizen can indicate and yell, "Fake news!" at whatsoever shred of information that challenges their beliefs. This is the most autonomous of memes.

Trump's Notepad

Male child, President Trump sure looks presidential sitting behind a desk at Mar-a-Lago. What'southward he writing? Internet jokesters have a few ideas.

Side-Eyeing Michelle Obama

One of the weirdest (but best) parts of Trump's inauguration was that moment when Melania handed Michelle Obama the mysterious Tiffany'south box. Michelle'due south "Jim-facing" was all of the states that day, in more than ways than one.

Inauguration Livestreams

Livestreaming has become the norm for cord-cutters of the 21st century, and while in that location were yuge, massive crowds attending the event in person, social media stepped up with some creative interpretations of the twenty-four hours'southward activities.

#AlternativeFacts

In the VERY commencement days of Trump's presidency (recall those?), counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway appeared on television more than frequently than Jerry Seinfeld in reruns. These were times when cable news anchors sincerely believed presenting truthful information -- like, for example, that the Trump inauguration crowds were not the biggest e'er -- would force officials to realize the mistake of their ways. Instead, Kellyanne Conway informed the world that she lived past a prepare of "culling facts," thus gifting the world yet another versatile meme.

Trump Trunk

Several years ago, golfer Dave Phillips attended a conference to encounter which musculus groups were used the nigh in his swing. "Research showed," he after wrote, "that the central lower trunk muscle was the gluteus maximus." In other words, DAT ASS.

Retire Bitch

In March 2013, actor Danny DeVito tweeted "Antonin Scalia retire bitch." His reasons for doing and then are notwithstanding unclear. But four years later, the concise demand has bloomed into a popular refrain, a phone call for controversial men, peculiarly politicians, to cut their bullshit and pack it in.

Trump Hotel Memories

Do yous call back the fourth dimension Trump Hotels tried to run a social marketing campaign asking Twitter users for their favorite travel memories? Thanks to hardworking meme-sters around the net, you don't have to. Recollect, kids: Your tweets will live as long as Twitter lives.

"Steve Bannon Looks Like"

A pug Animorph that got stuck at the early on end of its transformation? We tin't say for certain. But these people tin can.

Trump'southward First Order of Business

Since taking office, President Trump has found a new favorite hobby: signing executive orders. The net'southward style of dealing with this has been to turn all his fancy blackness folders into giddy statements and rudimentary doodles. Say what you want, just this walking Ralph Steadman cartoon can draw.

Smart Trump

What happens when the President gets the Roll Rubber treatment.

Easy D

When Trump wanted to ban immigration from a list of Muslim-majority countries, the courts stepped in and blocked the order. Trump didn't back downward, instead tweeting well-nigh what he (presumably) perceived to be an easy judicial decision. Naturally, no 1 interpreted "Easy D!" that fashion. Sometimes 140-character limits are a approval.

SEE Y'all IN COURT

Speaking of judicial decisions, "I'll see you in court!" isn't just something litigious villains in '90s sitcoms say; it'southward what the President of the Usa tweets when that Piece of cake D wasn't as piece of cake as he thought.

Trump'southward Handshake

Trump shakes hands like someone pulling a pinball plunger. Past the time it was Trudeau'southward plow to visit the White House, Canada's head honcho was set up to pull dorsum.

Fine-Tuned Machine

Perhaps the funniest aspect of Donald Trump's first 100 days as president is his conviction that public branding will alter the opinions of the gazillion reporters and citizens who sentry his every move like a bald hawkeye suspiciously eyeing... Donald Trump. His merits most the Trump administration's mechanical competence combined with an internet full of broken machine gifs to create true meme magic.

Thumbs Up

"Who's got two thumbs and wants to become a meme?" These Trump officials, plainly, who got exactly what they asked for.

"I call my own shots"

Like so many other memes from Trump's offset 100 days, the President created this himself via Twitter. Once again, Trump demonstrated his analogousness for shimmery corporate euphemisms, and added the Fake NEWS meme to kick.

Kellyanne Conway Sits

In an alternate universe, an developed sitting like a distracted pre-teen on a couch wouldn't make news. But in this universe, it's Kellyanne Conway casually chilling on an Oval Function burrow while President Trump meets with leaders of historically blackness colleges. Photoshopping opportunities like this don't come along very frequently.

Tiny Trump

Google would take y'all believe Donald Trump's vi-foot-2. According to this Picayune meme, that shit's faux news. Pitiful!

Sex activity and the Russia

Poor Carrie. All she wanted was an invite to 1 of those Russian parties we've been hearing then much nearly.

This Is the Hereafter That Liberals Desire

When far-right Twitter user @polNewsNetwork1 tweeted a photo of a drag queen sitting next to a woman in a niqab in a New York subway motorcar, deriding the image as "the time to come that liberals want," said liberals clapped back past jubilant diversity and offering self-aware visions of their ain utopias. (Enter dogs, superheroes, Guy Fieri.) "I promise one day that a picture of a adult female in modesty garb sitting side by side to a colorful elevate queen isn't out of the ordinary," the elevate queen in the original picture, Gilda Wabbit, told BuzzFeed News, "that it's everyday life for everyone!"

Paul Ryan's Deck

Once upon a time, Business firm Speaker Paul Ryan thought information technology was a skilful idea to explain the GOP's Obamacare replacement with a PowerPoint presentation. The rest, as you lot know, was meme-story.

Obamacare vs. GOP Replacement

Before Business firm Republican leaders pulled the GOP'south pecker to repeal and replace Obamacare, the cyberspace wasn't thrilled with the thought of Trumpcare. To illustrate their frustration in simple terms, the people built a meme, a meme that starkly juxtaposed purity with disappointment and goodness with garbage, a meme that yelled, "Fuck that shit!" real loud.

Kellyanne Conway'south Spying Microwave

"You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their tv set sets -- any number of ways... microwaves that plough into cameras," Trump's truth-massaging consigliere toldThe Record. "Nosotros know this is a fact of modern life." To-may-to, to-mah-to, microphone, microwave.

Donald Trump Jr.'due south Sitting Skills

This infamous picture comes from aNew York Timesstory, headlined, "Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own Kind of Trump." Inverse, of grade, from the original: "Donald Trump Jr. Is the Death Knell of Sitting every bit We Know It."

Border Wall Requirements

What's worse than having no wall? Co-ordinate to Trump, an UGLY WALL. A very real graphic on Fox News lent itself too well to parody to go unused.

Trump Truck

A few years agone, when someone asked David Owen whether Trump was "in on the joke" of his public persona, the New Yorkerwriter said, "As far as I could tell, the Trump nosotros were used to seeing on television was the honest-to-god accurate Trump: a 10-yr-former boy who, for unknown reasons, had been given a existent airplane and a billion dollars." Harsh? Not when you see what happened when the president welcomed members of the American Trucking Clan to the White Firm. The pictures, which corroborated Owen's take, were already golden. Simply the ensuing tweets, especially this flawless "Thong Song" 1, catapulted the images to meme stardom.

Health Care Meetings

Before Trumpcare failed, it was difficult to tum the irony of the situation: dusty white male politicians were debatingwomen's healthcare. Y'all know how insane that was? As Hillary Clinton's favorite meme pointed out, information technology was like dogs debating feline bug.

Melania's Portrait

The Starting time Lady? Not safety either. When Her Highness released her official White House portrait -- complete with the softest of focuses -- it got roasted with the same intensity as, well, most things Trump-related.

Rare Pepes

There'due south a -ane,362% chance that Matt Furie envisioned his Pepe the Frog grapheme condign an icon of Nazi sympathizers and alt-right Twitter eggs, but here we are. The best way to fight memes, though, is with more memes. As Pepe evolved from an innocent cartoon graphic symbol to a relatively innocent normie meme to a rallying figure for alt-right Nazi sympathizers to a literal stand-in for Trump and his deplorables, it became nearly incommunicable to escape Pepe. How exercise you maintain a meme's value in a super-saturated market place? Kickoff searching for rarePepes.

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