Sad Donald Trump Jr.

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About

Sad Donald Trump Jr. refers to a photograph of Donald Trump Jr. sitting on a tree stump looking off camera from an article in the New York Times, which inspired a series of captioned tweets mocking the picture in late March 2017.

Origin

On March 18th, 2017, The New York Times^[1] published an profile on Donald Trump Jr. titled "Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own Kind of Trump," which featured a photograph of President Donald Trump's oldest son sitting on a tree stump (shown below, left). That morning, Twitter user @JordanFreiman^[2] tweeted the photo along with other pictures of Trump Jr. sitting along with the quip "how is he so bad at sitting?" (shown below, right). Within 72 hours, the tweet gained over 91,700 likes and 29,900 retweets.

Spread

That day, other Twitter users reposted the New York Times photograph along with joke captions mocking Trump Jr. (shown below).

Meanwhile, comedian Patton Oswalt posted the photograph next to nude photograph of the deceased singer-songwriter Prince from the cover of his 1988 album Lovesexy (shown below).^[3] Within 72 hours, the tweet garnered more than 6,800 likes and 1,200 retweets. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the Twitter meme, including BuzzFeed,^[5] Esquire^[6] and The Huffington Post.^[7]

Donald Trump Jr.'s Response

On March 20th, Trump Jr. reposted Freiman's tweet on Instagram,^[4] saying ”I now know what it feels like to be Salt Bae!” (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 37,000 likes and 2,900 comments.