Nancy Pelosi Pointing at Donald Trump

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About

Nancy Pelosi Pointing at Donald Trump refers to an image of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi standing and pointing at President Donald Trump who is sitting during a meeting to discuss Syria. Trump shared the image on Twitter in October calling Nancy Pelosi "unhinged" but many Twitter users disagreed and mocked Trump's tweet. One Time magazine editor's comment that started with the sentence "This is a photo thousands of years in the making" became a Twitter copypasta. Press Secretary for democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris soon posted the image to Twitter but replaced Trump with Harris saying "It's time for an upgrade" which confused Twitter users leading them to mock the Tweet by posting their own Photoshop edits of the image with the caption "It's time for an upgrade."

Origin

On October 16th, 2019, Donald Trump^[1] tweeted a photo of a White House meeting with Nancy Pelosi with the caption "Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown!" (shown below). The tweet gained over 117,500 likes and 30,500 retweets in two days.

Spread

On October 16th, 2019, after Trump posted the image calling her unhinged Nancy Pelosi^[2] made the image her cover photo on Twitter (shown below).

On October 16th, Twitter user @farronbalanced^[4] compared the image to Woman Yelling at a Cat with the caption "They did it…they did the meme in real life" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 16,500 likes and 4,000 retweets in two days. The next day, Redditor BearBreatBaller posted the image to r/memeeconomy^[3] labeling Pelosi "6 y/o girls already saying that all boys are jerks" and Trump as "6 y/o me eating a red Lego to see if it tastes the same as the green one" (shown below, right). The post received over 20,000 points (93% upvoted) in a day.

This Photo Is Thousands of Years In the Making

On October 16th, 2019, Time Magazine Editor @AnandWrites^[7] replied to his repost of the image with "This is a photo thousands of years in the making. Her power, her finger, his visible disgust at her power" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 3,700 likes and 400 retweets in two days. The next day, Twitter user @TankieSanders^[8] commented "Can cringe be so strong it kills? Asking for me" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 80 likes in a day.

That same day, Twitter user @TheSocietyDude^[9] posted the Woman Yelling at a Cat image with the copypasta "This is a photo thousands of years in the making. Her power, her finger, his visible disgust at her power" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 5,200 likes and 500 retweets in a day. Twitter user @postXamerica^[10] also used the copypasta in a caption but added a image of E.T.'s finger pointing at Eliot (shown below, right).

Time For an Upgrade

On October 17th, 2019, Kamala Harris' press secretary Ian Sams uploaded a photoshopped version of the image with Kamala Harris replacing Trump with the caption "Time for an upgrade" (shown below, left).^[5] The tweet has since been deleted. That same day, many Twitter users began mocking the post due to its confusing message. Twitter users were confused as to why Nancy Pelosi would be yelling at Harris. Twitter user @aScottyMr^[6] tweeted "Time for an upgrade" with various edits of the image to mock the original tweet by Sams (shown below, right).