Every so often, a famous politician’s team invents a plan with #fail written all over it.
The 2016 presidential race has already seen a few of them, but Monday was peak fun for Twitter users when Donald Trump started answering questions under the #AskTrump hashtag. Trump’s social team probably didn’t learn from the failure of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s #AskJindal, which soon turned into #BobbyJindalSoWhite, mocking the Republican candidate.
But #AskTrump won the Internet in how royally it backfired. Some got really nasty, including those about the citizenship of his hair, and comparing his head with a potato.
Here are some of the best and the worst from the lot of questions that Trump got.
#AskTrump You say the Bible is your favorite book. Do you have any other favorite books that you've never read?
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) September 21, 2015
How do you feel knowing that you have turned the entire presidential election process into a joke? #AskTrump
— Em Harriss (@EmHarriss) September 21, 2015
https://twitter.com/PoliticalGroove/status/645995985336864768
Do you plan on deporting both your immigrant wives, or just the one you like the least? #AskTrump
— Jenny Trout (@Jenny_Trout) September 21, 2015
#AskTrump how do you feel about the fact that you're more of a meme than a presidential candidate
— taylor 🍒 (@ariesdyke) September 21, 2015
What's your favourite type of discrimination? #AskTrump
— Lily Bailey (@LilyBaileyUK) September 21, 2015
https://twitter.com/BeforeFamePics/status/646025287923290112
https://twitter.com/yovabundra/status/646024478061916161
https://twitter.com/captainorgana/status/645990061738172420
https://twitter.com/ruinedbyreality/status/645991117327101952
This user even (probably correctly) preempted the reaction of Trump’s social team.
Donald Trump's social media team reading #AskTrump pic.twitter.com/wrIJ5NcNVb
— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) September 21, 2015
But none of the scathing questions got to Trump. Instead, he played it cool, and tweeted a picture from Twitter headquarters, saying that he loved doing this. We did too, Donald. We did, too.
I had a great time at @TwitterNYC #AskTrump pic.twitter.com/RfWQdDPB33
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2015
Photo via Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC by 2.0) | Remix by Max Fleishman