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Donald Trump Reacts to Ted Cruz is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of the Republican presidential candidate and his family members looking displeased as his former rival candidate Ted Cruz defiantly refused to endorse Donald Trump during his speech at the Republican National Convention in July 2016.

Origin

On July 20th, 2016, United States Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which he congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the primaries, though he ultimately refused to endorse him as the Republican Party's presidential candidate by urging the attendees to "vote their conscience" in November. As the audience began booing at Cruz, Getty Images photographer Win McNamee^[1] captured the reaction of Trump and his family looking rather displeased with Cruz.

Spread

The same day, Redditor belisaurius submitted McNamee's photograph to the /r/photoshopbattles^[2] subreddit, where users created photoshopped variations on the image, many of them with only slight changes. In less than 24 hours, the thread garnered more than 4,728 points (81% upvoted), 870 comments and 70 submissions.

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