Donald Trump With Toilet Paper on Foot

About

Donald Trump With Toilet Paper on Foot refers to a series of jokes and memes of a viral video of United States President Donald Trump with what appears to be toilet paper on his foot as he entered Air Force One.

Origin

On October 4th, 2018, the Facebook page for KSTP news tweeted a video entitled "President Trump Leaves Minneapolis for Rochester." In the video, President Trump boards the presdidential aircraft, Air Force One, and appears to have toilet paper on his foot. Within 24 hours, the post received more than 350 reactions, 145 shares and 50,000 views (shown below)

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That day, Twitter ^[1] user @MaltLiquorLogic shared the video. They captioned the post, "As if this entire presidency couldn’t be more bizarre… Today, Trump boarded Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe." The post received more than 25,000 retweets and 68,000 likes in 24 hours (shown below, left).

Additionally, Twitter^[2] user @MissBeaE tweeted the video. They captioned the video, "This video of President Trump with toilet paper on his shoe is 100% real. He was boarding Air Force One in Minneapolis earlier today." The tweet received more than 5,000 retweets and 15,000 likes in 24 hours (shown below, center).

Following the post, people shared screen captures of the moment as well as posted jokes about the image. Twitter^[3] user @jef_poskanzer tweeted a mock Presidential Alert. The post received more than 390 retweets and 2,100 likes in 24 hours (shown below, right).

Twitter user @LaurenWen set the video to the theme song from the American teleivison comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm. The post received mroe than 1,700 retweets and 3,700 like sin 24 hours.

Several media outlets covered the video, including The Daily Dot, ^[4] HuffPost,^[5] Uproxx^[6] and more.

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