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Bernie Sanders blesses meme lovers with a poster-sized Trump tweet

What did any of us expect?

Chloe Bryan

on January 4, 2017

It's the circle of life, guys: Bernie Sanders printed a Donald Trump tweet on a poster board and brought it to the Senate floor, so the internet is making weird memes out of it.

Sanders used the big, big printout to remind the Senate -- which is currently debating repealing the Affordable Care Act -- that, before joining the presidential race, Trump promised not to cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.

Here is that tweet (which is still up, by the way).

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And here is the Vermont senator with that tweet, made flesh with ink and foam board, on the Senate floor.

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Perhaps he knew that bringing a tweet poster to Congress would get his point some attention. Perhaps he was accommodating those Senators who did not bring their glasses that day. But whatever he thought would happen, he gave Twitter a blank canvas on which to Photoshop.

And Photoshop it did. Here are a few highlights.