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Trump’s Puerto Rican paper towel toss becomes an instant meme

That’s… one way to hand out emergency supplies.

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President Donald Trump visited Puerto Rico on Tuesday in the wake of Hurricane Maria. This was his chance to show some some compassion to the survivors, especially after tweeting insults about San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz over the weekend. Instead he made a joke about the disaster messing up the government’s budget. And he handed out emergency supplies like he was on a game show.

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Here’s Trump tossing paper towel rolls:

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The internet did not think it was a good move.

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Trump looked like he was taking a jump shot, which people began to parody. It became an instant meme.

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Over on Reddit, a “Photoshop battlebroke out.

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What a collection of photos we’ll have of this presidency by the end of 2017.

 
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