Twitter Reacts to Donald Trump's Mugshot

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Aug 25, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

It is a rare occurrence that you can see a meme coming from a mile away. It's even rarer that you can predict a meme before the image that makes up the meme has even come out. This is one of those occurrences. On Wednesday, August 24th, extremely reliable news sources like Pop Crave, Pop Base, and Pop Tingz reported that Donald Trump's mugshot would be released on August 25th. Twitter users sat around in anticipation all day yesterday, waiting for the soon-to-be iconic image to emerge. Some fake mugshots surfaced and started circulating, but they were quickly debunked. Finally, the actual mugshot came out around 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. It was precisely what everyone expected, and the meme makers got a-cooking. These are some of the first memes from a meme trend that will not be soon forgotten. Hopefully, the people of Twitter won't run it into the ground like they do with everything.