President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly

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Trump’s threat to Iran’s president is already a dank meme

From song lyrics, to 'Rickrolling,' people couldn't help but make fun of Trump.

 

Andrew Wyrich

Internet Culture

Posted on Jul 23, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 10:27 am CDT

Late Sunday night President Donald Trump sent out an all-caps threat on Twitter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to remarks he made over the weekend.

In the tweet, Trump addressed the Iranian president and promised “consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before” should Iran continue to “threaten” the United States.

Naturally, Twitter thought the president’s all-caps threat was the perfect opportunity to make fun of him by addressing their own all-caps messages to Rouhani.

The tweets were in all-caps and mimicked Trump’s “To Iranian President Rouhani:” format.

You had the classic “Nigerian Prince” email-scheme:

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The “Darth Plagueis the wise” story from Star Wars Episode III, a joke that is already a meme in of itself:

President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
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Several different song lyrics:

President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
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President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
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President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
@LiveOnStage3/Twitter
President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
@LiveOnStage3/Twitter

The song lyrics, of course, included the “Rickrolling” meme:

President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
@LiveOnStage3/Twitter

Other jokes were more topical:

President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
@ExRte123/Twitter
President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly
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*First Published: Jul 23, 2018, 9:37 am CDT