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Donald Trump's Truck Photographs refer to pictures of President Donald Trump pretending to drive a truck in the White House driveway. The enthusiasm Trump seemed to show inspired jokes on Twitter.

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On March 23rd, 2017, President Donald Trump met with leaders of the American Trucking Associations to have a listening session on health care.^[1] The meeting came while a scheduled vote in the House of Representatives on repealing the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare, and passing the American Health Care Act was postponed due to lack of support. At the meeting, Trump was photographed wearing a button that read "I <3 Trucks," and was later photographed pretending to drive and honk the horn of a truck parked in the White House driveway.

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Immediately, Twitter users began joking about the photos, commenting on Trump's apparent childlike enthusiasm for trucks while his party's health care bill faced huge setbacks in congress. One of the more popular jokes was comparing the photograph of Trump pretending to drive intensely to the film Mad Max: Fury Road (example shown below).

The jokes received a sizable amount of media attention that afternoon and the following morning, gaining coverage from Twitter Moments,^[2] Daily Dot,^[3] Select All,^[4] and more.

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