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Clinton/Trump Duet refers to a series of jokes about pictures taken at the second 2016 United States Presidential Election Debate of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump that make the candidates appear as though they are singing a karaoke duet.

Origin

The second presidential debate of the 2016 United States Presidential Election had a town hall format, meaning that the candidates sat in the middle of the stage and fielded questions from vetted undecided voters in the audience. Unlike other debates, the candidates were not standing at a podium and held microphones as they walked around the stage. Photos of the candidates talking into their microphones at the same time spread around the internet as Twitter users made jokes about how the candidates appeared to be singing a karaoke duet. Twitter user @Moochie_BMN^[1] tweeted one of the first examples, shown below, and gained over 43,000 retweets and 73,000 favorites.

Spread

Through and after the debate, users tweeted pictures of Clinton and Trump with their microphones and captioned them with lyrics to popular duets, including Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes' "The Time of My Life" (below, left), Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is The Love" (below, center), Les Miserables (below, right), and more.

The spread of the joke attracted the coverage of major media outlets, including Yahoo,^[2] Fader,^[3] Bustle,^[4] and more.

Various Examples

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