President Donald Trump had a sign tacked to the front of his podium during his unscheduled Rose Garden speech on Thursday, and it got the meme treatment on Twitter.
Trump was responding to claims that he engaged in a cover-up, doubling down the claim that the Mueller investigation found no obstruction and no collusion with the sign.
Presidential podium in Rose Garden set up for Trump remarks. pic.twitter.com/OMxOlW2D10
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 22, 2019
Twitter users quickly began to treat the sign as their own personal green screen of sorts. One person even gave the internet the gift of a blank sign to play with.
https://twitter.com/LizMackenzie12/status/1131231910695493634
Others took the opportunity to poke fun at the president’s time spent golfing and his intelligence level.
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Podium set up in the Rose Garden with statistics on the Mueller investigation. pic.twitter.com/1ZcEcXACJ9
— K. Thor Jensen 🐀🐀 (@kthorjensen) May 22, 2019
Several people on Twitter “fixed” the sign with actual statistics regarding the Mueller investigation.
Since @realDonaldTrump is senile, I fixed his WH Rose Garden podium.
— #ACraftyArab is voting (@acraftyarab) May 22, 2019
You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/DPImCdVYiB
Trump left off alot of important numbers on his lecture poster so I went ahead and fixed it….#maga @realDonaldTrump #rosegarden #trump #maddow pic.twitter.com/oTMTFf4R2u
— DogsHateBoots (@DogsHateBoots) May 22, 2019
Fixed the President's Rose Garden sign for him. pic.twitter.com/faQZ4xAPhy
— Jim Himes 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@jahimes) May 22, 2019
“Mueller investigation by the numbers,” Trump’s original sign read, along with some “statistics” about the investigation. Over 35 million spent, over 2,800 people were subpoenaed, and over 500 witnesses, the sign said. The investigation took 675 days, and Mueller’s team consisted of “18 angry Democrats.”
In the Rose Garden, awaiting Trump, “Mueller investigation by the numbers.” Some of the Democrats who were supposed to meet with Trump on infrastructure were already at the White House. pic.twitter.com/Wz3kKeNvso
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 22, 2019
Trump held the speech after very briskly walking out of an infrastructure meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). The meeting lasted all of three minutes.
“We believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover-up,” Pelosi told reporters before the meeting on Thursday.
Trump went straight from the meeting to the Rose Garden to publically refute the accusation. Many dubbed it a #TrumpTantrum, a hashtag that began trending shortly after the speech. Many also thought the pre-made, printed-out sign was a good indication that Trump’s speech was not as “impromptu” as claimed.
Schumer called Trump’s exit a “pre-planned excuse” with “prepared signs that (were) printed up long before” the meeting at a press conference.
You can't have an "impromptu" Rose Garden speech with pre-printed signs. Pelosi and Schumer are right, it was a set up-Trump never intended to work on making Infrastructure better for the country. pic.twitter.com/Uqgcintm56
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) May 22, 2019
The WH literally printed fucking signs and planned this in advance. Democrats showed up for infrastructure and trump called the press to the rose garden to attack Pelosi. It’s called a trap. Pre-meditation is not impromptu.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 22, 2019
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H/T Intelligencer