John Lewis' birthday gift for Hillary Clinton was a glimpse of what could have been
It's Hillary Clinton's 70th birthday today. To celebrate, U.S. Rep. John Lewis gave the gift of an alternate reality, one in which the Democratic presidential candidate had made it into the White House as the first female American president.
After wishing "Madame President Hillary Clinton" a happy birthday, the responses came in strong.
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Numerous people cheered on the Georgia congressman and the Donald Trump-free world he hinted at with the short tweet. A sampling:
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The yassses could be heard around the internet, magnified by the fact that Lewis was the same congressman and civil rights icon whom Trump berated at the beginning of the year.
Then the celebratory tweets started to die down with a blunt reality check: No, she didn't win.
If only Clinton's birthday wishes could come true. Until then, President Trump is still President Trump.
Topics Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Politics
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
