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Donald Trump Gaming Laptop or Trump Gamer Laptop refers to a photo of Donald Trump and his legal team at his trial in New York for $250 million in alleged fraud. At his trial in early October 2023, one of his lawyers (named Alina Habba) pulled out a Republic of Gamers (ROG) RGB-enabled gaming PC, creating a wave of memes online about how he's "Definitely Going To Jail Dawg," among others. Other memes and captions using the reaction image and exploitable depict Trump as a gamer who is standing trial for his opinions on gaming matters.

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On October 2nd, 2023, X user @CitizenFreePress^[1] posted a video inside the courtroom during Donald Trump's fraud trial, which showed the laptop of one of his attorneys changing colors on the ROG logo on the lid. While the caption and comments at the time were focused on the severity of the impact of the trial, the video itself gained over 33,000 views in 10 hours (shown below).

Jonathan Turley is "surprised" to see Trump on camera in the courtroom. "People looking at this picture right now will be either filled with rage or thrilled and that's a problem. They're insisting this trial occur during an election. Many people find it troubling." pic.twitter.com/fFfc4HtbHy

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 2, 2023

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Later that day, on October 2nd, 2023, X user @DerekNeverFails^[2] uploaded a zoomed-in picture of the laptop, used by lawyer Alina Habba, captioning the picture in bewilderment that it was brought to the trial and had the keyboard RGBs turned on, earning over 1,100 likes in 10 hours (shown below).

On October 3rd, the official Moist Esports^[3] X account, the esports team owned and operated by Moist Cr1tikal, uploaded an edited photo of Trump with a gaming headset on. The caption, likening Trump to a toxic player with a 1:7 KDR, received over 260 likes in four hours (shown below).

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