Last night, Donald Trump delivered his third State of the Union address as president.
The night began with Trump ignoring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she reached down to shake his hand after giving her a copy of his speech, which under normal circumstances would have been The Moment™ everyone was talking about.
The night ended, however, with Pelosi ripping her copy of the speech — which had been filled with false or misleading claims about the president's record — in half after Trump had finished speaking.
Taking a few sheets at a time, she tore them up, later calling the speech "a manifesto of mistruths."
Faster than you can, IDK, tear a sheet of paper in two, the moment became a meme on Politics Twitter, Gay Twitter, Media Twitter, Twitter Twitter... Basically, it was everywhere.
me at the end of a meeting that could’ve been an email
Me ripping up the study guide after failing the test:
Me tearing up the chore list my mom would leave me during summer break
Lady Gaga every time she has a meeting with Interscope and they tell her to release new music so the date gets changed again
me reading all your tweets tonight
But that's not all. After leaving the chamber and being asked by a reporter for her reaction to the speech, she said, "I tore it up," adding that "it was the courteous thing to do."
I just asked Speaker Pelosi her reaction to the #SOTU speech. “I tore it up,” she said. Why? “It was the courteous thing to do,” she said. https://t.co/b5rVil4ply
"I tore it up" became its own meme, and imho, it was even better than the one from, like, five minutes earlier.
Me walking out of the bathroom after eating Chipotle
the Navarro cheer squad coming off their performance at nationals
Jake Gyllenhaal when Taylor Swift said “maybe this thing was a masterpiece”
Me to the doorman as I’m leaving a Grindr hookups apartment building an hour after i arrived
Me when I finally leave the dance floor when I go out on a Thursday night
Nice job, everyone.
