In the meme pictured above, you tend to feel a certain way about our president and our countries current state. Angry? Funny? Sad? These are all feelings this meme is trying to evoke to different viewers. This meme represents satire. The meme allows itself to be viewed as “playful”, laughable, or a joke, but it also casts judgement when doing so. The satire used in this meme creates judgment towards our president and his response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This meme is possibly calling attention to the “drink bleach” incident or possibly the fact that the president said Covid-19 was “a joke” and “fake”. This meme allows politically inattentive audiences to increase their attention to political stories. This is called the gateway effect. By using this effect, political humor is exposed to those who may not watch the news or pay attention to the Covid-19 briefings held in the White House. By seeing this meme, the audience e=receives a funny bu7t negative image of the president which may lead them to search for more information and become politically involved.