President Donald Trump is known for slapping his name on things, and on Wednesday he tried to do it to an entire age.
Specifically, the “Age of Trump.”
In a tweet attacking the media, Trump said: “When the ‘Age of Trump’ is looked back on many years from now, I only hope that a big part of my legacy will be the exposing of massive dishonesty in the Fake News!”
The tweet caused “Age of Trump” to trend. But it wasn’t exactly full of reflections on a new Golden Age. Much of it was criticism, memes and jokes such as these:
Wondered why everyone was suddenly tweeting about the "Age of Trump."
— Asᴛᴀʀᴛɪᴇʟ©®™✪ (@Astartiel) August 29, 2019
OF COURSE it's because Trump, the king of narcissists, tweeted it.
Your 4 years as president doesn't qualify as an AGE, even if only 2½ years does feel like an eon.
You're really not that important.
I won't miss the Age of Trump. pic.twitter.com/P2f7YKCn0T
— That Damn Donkey (@thatdamndonkey) August 29, 2019
When the “Age of Trump” is looked back on many years from now, I only hope that a big part of my legacy will be helping ensure that “Age” lasts only one term and that it’s looked back on with regret and disgust. https://t.co/WaGKlgEMZn
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 29, 2019
History definitely will recall the “Age of Trump” as fraudulent, fake, and corrupt. https://t.co/Gcd0f3NsXp
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) August 29, 2019
Oh pump the breaks on this bullshit already. Give us all a break. The Age of Trump is not a thing either. The Aging of Trump is. We are all going to remember the aging of Trump as your decisions become crazier and crazier and your yes men twist further and further into pretzels.
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) August 29, 2019
Good laughs are hard to find. Thanks, that’s a good one - “Age of Trump.” pic.twitter.com/TeBigO4mSA
— Logan Dee (@Anderhardt) August 29, 2019
LOL he just said the “Age of Trump.” The only megalomaniacs who named an entire age after themselves ended up destroying their nations in huge dumpster fires. Even Hitler called it the Third Reich and not the Age of Hitler. Trump is a parody of himself. pic.twitter.com/Ku9iXymNEK
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) August 29, 2019
Let us recount the Age of Trump.
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) August 29, 2019
He attacks Gold Star families.
He taxes Gold Star kids.
Now, he wants to strip military babies of the automatic U.S. citizenship if they're born overseas.
#TrumpHatesMilitaryFamilies
"The Age of Trump" is roughly six and a half. pic.twitter.com/uclyUx4O65
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) August 29, 2019
4 years old is "The Age of Trump" pic.twitter.com/2qYSjeZK7R
— Marc Sussman (@MarcSussman5) August 29, 2019
The Age of Trump will never be as good as the Age of Obama, a man who won two elections with the popular vote and is still respected by much of the world. They'll never ever love Trump as much as a black man born to a Kenyan Muslim. I take much pleasure in this fact. https://t.co/h06DTn9uu2
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 29, 2019
Age of Trump should be a video game #trumptanic pic.twitter.com/x4a9AOVmSn
— Baldur (@N9ineWorlds) August 29, 2019
There has never been a time in the history of our Country that the ‘President’ was so Fraudulent, Fake, or Corrupt! When the “Age of Trump” is looked back on many years from now, a big part of your legacy will be the exposing of your massive criminality in the White House!
— God (@thegoodgodabove) August 29, 2019
Age of Trump, is 5 pic.twitter.com/lvVFtX8pqO
— Arthur Dent (@iblamethevogons) August 29, 2019
The Age of Trump. pic.twitter.com/TEvBSNBhIR
— Cameron Grant (@coolercambackup) August 29, 2019
The "Age of Trump" 😂
— Jeremy Taylor (@JezTaylorUK) August 29, 2019
People will look back on it like a drunken one night stand where you wake up in the morning and think "what have I done??" and never speak of it again.
In these troubled times, I like to put my hand over the kidney in my heart, stare at the moon of Mars contemplating how the wheel is older than the wall, the great things Frederick Douglass is doing & just being thankful I have ID to buy cereal & I don’t have windmill cancer.
— Trent Capelli (@TrentCapelli) August 29, 2019
— ⛥Witchypoo⛦ (@DRoseShines1) August 29, 2019
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