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#JohnMcCainDay is the new way to troll Trump on his birthday

The hashtag was trending early Friday.

 

Andrew Wyrich

Tech

Posted on Jun 14, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 10:36 am CDT

Thousands of people on Twitter are celebrating President Donald Trump’s birthday today by using the hashtag #JohnMcCainDay.

The hashtag was trending on Friday morning, the president’s 73rd birthday. He started it off by doing an early morning interview on Fox & Friends.

The hashtag appears to have been started by Andy Lassner, the executive producer of the Ellen DeGeneres Show in a tweet where he called on his followers to celebrate the president’s birthday by using the hashtag, according to HuffPost.

In the tweet, Lassner says he was “sure this would mean a lot to patriot like Donald Trump.”

https://twitter.com/andylassner/status/1139471906543767553

A few hours later Lassner posted a screenshot of #JohnMcCainDay trending on Twitter.

Trump and McCain publicly sparred before the Arizona senator died in August last year. As Newsweek notes, a Change.org petition to change June 14 to John McCain Day was started five days ago.

The hashtag caught on, with a lot of people using it to mock Trump.

https://twitter.com/i_demian/status/1139505337818632192

https://twitter.com/JulieBrethauer/status/1139509492092166144

https://twitter.com/PGYoung1964/status/1139496911516266496

https://twitter.com/Lucy_Blackburn/status/1139495281806983168

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*First Published: Jun 14, 2019, 10:44 am CDT