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Obama Netflix is a phrase tweeted by Donald Trump that was intended to encourage the House Judiciary Committee to investigate former president Barack Obama's deal with Netflix. However, his text leading up to the phrase made his question "Obama Netflix?" seem like a complete non-sequitur. This led to jokes about the phrase, similar to jokes made after he tweeted Covfefe.

Origin

On September 16th, 2019, Donald Trump^[1] tweeted:

They failed on the Mueller Report, they failed on Robert Mueller’s testimony, they failed on everything else, so now the Democrats are trying to build a case that I enrich myself by being President. Good idea, except I will, and have always expected to, lose BILLIONS of DOLLARS..
….for the privilege of being your President – and doing the best job that has been done in many decades. I am far beyond somebody paying for a hotel room for the evening, or filling up a gas tank at an airport I do not own. These Radical Left Democrats are CRAZY! Obama Netflix?

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Immediately after the tweet, people began making fun of the apparent non-sequitur of "Obama Netflix?" For example, @Darth^[2] tweeted a Trump Yelling At Lawn-mowing Boy edit, gaining over 550 retweets and 3,400 likes (shown below, left). User @rosswenk^[3] mocked the tweet by recreating it in crayon (shown below, right).

Jokes were covered by SFGate.^[4] Other popular jokes include a piece by Twitter user @itsJeffDietrich that gained over 2,300 retweets and 13,000 likes (shown below, left). User @ohnoshetwitnt joked "Obama Netflix" was on par wth "Hillary's Emails" in terms of Trump's obsessions (shown below, right).

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