Elon Musk's Twitter may be a dying platform, a Jenga tower of baffling new features stacked atop the gaps where useful ones used to be, but there are still days when it is simply the best place to munch popcorn and enjoy jokes about the news in real time. Thursday March 30 was one of those days.
News broke in the early evening, New York time, that a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former president Donald Trump on charges relating to alleged hush money paid to porn performer Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to cover up a brief sexual relationship. It's one of four criminal investigations currently looking into the former president's activities — alongside two from the DoJ regarding the Jan. 6 insurrection and mishandling of classified documents, and one relating to election interference in Fulton County, Georgia — but it's the first to result in actual charges against Trump himself.
SEE ALSO:Donald Trump is melting down on Truth Social over his indictmentWatchers in both Trump's camp and the media more broadly had been expecting the indictment as early as last Tuesday, so the political wits and meme dealers of Twitter had some time to prep their gags. But as always, the news was met by a cascade of classic memes, inside jokes, and well-seasoned schadenfreude.
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Some were generous enough to reference Trump's career highs.
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deletedSEE ALSO:Half of Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 1,000 followers
Won't somebody please think of the late night shows?
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Speaking of rich people, the verdict in Gwyneth Paltrow's ski-accident civil suit came down within the hour of the Trump announcement.
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
Early reports about the substance of Trump's actual indictment hinted at a whopping 34 counts of falsifying documents.
Tweet may have been deleted
And Trump's own response to the news, of course, added fuel to the fire as only he can.
Tweet may have been deleted
Pelting digital tomatoes at Trump on his perp walk is always fun, but it should always be in the context of the untold damage he's done to real people in his decades of public life as a rich, vainglorious, racist shithead. The final word — literally — should go to one of those people.
Tweet may have been deleted
TopicsTwitterPolitics
(责任编辑：綜合)
PlayStation Now game streaming is coming to PCLittle girl uses the Cambridge Analytica controversy to ask her dad for a puppyChristina Aguilera is unrecognisable on the cover of 'Paper' magazine
Android has gotten a lot safer in 2017, Google claimsDaughter gives her 100This chart shows just how high Simone Biles can jump
American gymnast Simone Biles has dominated the Rio Olympics with five medals (four of them gold) bu
...[详细]Major snowstorm slams East Coast, to break records from D.C. to Boston
The fourth nor'easter in just three weeks is pummeling the East Coast, bringing heavy snow and sleet
...[详细]Little girl uses the Cambridge Analytica controversy to ask her dad for a puppy
When you really, really want something, you do everything within your power to make it happen.。 This
...[详细]To treat blindness, doctors put gene
On the morning of March 20, eye surgeon Jason Comander injected viruses carrying lab-grown genes int
...[详细]The U.S. will no longer have the final say on internet domain names
The National Telecommunications Information Admistration (NTIA) announced via。 blog post 。on Tuesday
...[详细]HTC launches Vive Pro for virtual reality enthusiasts
HTC has announced the price for its new virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro: $799. 。 The headset, w
...[详细]Scientists say they've discovered a new organ
Back when he was a young student in medical school some 30 years ago, pathologist Neil Theise wasn't
...[详细]HTC launches Vive Pro for virtual reality enthusiasts
HTC has announced the price for its new virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro: $799. 。 The headset, w
...[详细]More than half of women in advertising have faced sexual harassment, report says
If you are a woman in advertising, chances are you've faced workplace sexual harassment at one point
...[详细]Google praises employee 'acts of heroism' after shooting at YouTube
Minutes after a woman opened fire on YouTube's San Bruno, California campus, employees returned to t
...[详细]