A couple of big things happened on planet Earth this weekend. France took down Croatia in the World Cup, the quadrennial soccer tour that captivates the globe, and President Donald Trump threatened NATO members, the long-standing military alliance that protects liberal democracy around the globe.
All that’s left now is to lean back, seamlessly integrate them into a tweet, hit send, and watch the favorites roll in…
Great World Cup. Question for President Trump as he meets Putin: Do you know which team you play for?
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 16, 2018
Hillary Clinton went there, and Twitter was lit with sarcasm over the reaching, clunky half-joke from the former secretary of state.
Holy fuck that’s good.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) July 16, 2018
OMG! I'm DEAD!
— Tom D'Angora (he/him) (@TomDangora) July 16, 2018
She is my everything https://t.co/lU4ctFzkr5
Holy mother of shade https://t.co/l9zSygk4ta
— Jon Ott (@OriginalJLP) July 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/ricedaddy7/status/1018830357897142272
But there was some earnest love for it, too, because if there’s one thing we learned in 2016, it’s that some people really do love the “slay Mom” persona Clinton adopted online.
https://twitter.com/yolaurr/status/1018679140516540416
1st degree burn https://t.co/XHPFViqIqQ
— rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) July 16, 2018
Mic drop to end all mic drops.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) July 16, 2018
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/mUL0Mabwsj
It was also fodder for right-wingers, who love nothing more than to get worked up over Clinton not being president.
https://twitter.com/OfficeOfMike/status/1018654422442872833
Yes, off course @realDonaldTrump knows what team he plays for ….. And it's NOT the Hillary team 🤣🤣 but the Make America great again team.
— Tertia / Tiffie #TeamSteve (@Net_Tertia) July 16, 2018
Still licking the loser wounds I see, https://t.co/p1YQUvbJuD
Given you, Hillary, paid $12 million dollars to Christopher Steele for a dossier full of Kremlin propaganda, we all KNOW whose team you play for. https://t.co/hqkVrRcD0B
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) July 16, 2018
Some also thought the “team” part of Clinton’s tweet was a veiled dig at homosexuality.
this is coded homophobia just as explicitly as when the @nytimes made the video of Trump and Putin kissing https://t.co/zkmwssvLrY
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) July 16, 2018
Of all the things this tweet was, it probably wasn’t that.