#burnmyMAGAhat

About

#burnmyMAGAhat refers to a hashtag in which supporters of Donald Trump, angry after a supposed compromise was reached between Trump and Democrats on Trump's proposed repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, burn their hats which bear Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.

Origin

On September 5th, 2017, Donald Trump announced he would be repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),^[1] a program from the Obama administration which allows children of undocumented immigrants to receive a two-year deferment from deportation and the possibility of attaining a work permit.^[2] Trump gave congress a six-month window to reach a legislative compromise on the act. However, on September 13th, 2017, Trump met with Democrats and following the meeting, Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer announced "We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides." The following morning, Trump posted a series of cryptic tweets that seemed to say that while no deal was reached and he still wanted his promised wall on the border of Mexico and the United States, he did not want to deport hard working people in America (tweets shown below).

While details of the meeting and potential agreement Trump made with Democrats remain unclear, Trump supporters, feeling betrayed by the news, responded angrily with the hashtag #AmnestyDon. On the morning of September 14th, Twitter account @TheRightDefense^[3] tweeted "Trump supporters have already started burning #MAGA hats and shirts in protest to Trump's amnesty. Everyone post videos of it. #AmnestyDon." @KausMickey^[4] quote-tweeted that tweet and suggested the #burnmyMAGAhat hashtag. Twitter account @TrumpTrumpsUp^[5] then tweeted a picture of a burning MAGA hat that afternoon (shown below).

Spread

For the remainder of the day, many more people posted their burning MAGA hats under the hashtag. A popular example posted by @_weese_ showed a 45-second video of him lighting his hat on fire, gaining over 850 retweets (shown below).

The hat burnings were covered by Breitbart,^[6] McClatchy,^[7] and Daily Dot^[8] the following morning.

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