The meme pictured above is a child lawn mowing the yard of the White House and Donald Trump is asking the boy if he could use Twitter account since he has been banned. Trump’s Twitter account has been banned due to violating company rules with his behavior on the app. According to NPR’s podcast, Trump used his twitter account to “announce White House policy, attack rivals and widely disseminate misinformation”. His obsessive time on twitter made so many people frustrated and aggravated. After getting his account suspended, many people felt relieved that they did not have to scroll past Trump’s tweets that caused chaos at the Capitol.

This meme’s purpose is shown to make fun of Trump after his account got suspended, and he could no longer post on it. While this meme is very comedic and has people laughing about it, it also shows what society’s opinions were about Trump’s Twitter usage and how people truly felt about it. Trump asking the little boy cutting his lawn represents how desperate he is to post on Twitter and use it to spread his information. Multiple people sharing this meme with others and retweeting it shows that society agrees with the fact that Trump’s tweets were unnecessary and absurd. Many people felt angry with Trump as he obsessively used his Twitter platform, and they expressed these opinions by engaging with this meme through comedy and humor. Memes can spread very quickly through the amount of retweets and shares it receives, allowing more people to see them and express their opinions about the issue the meme portrays. With this meme becoming viral all over social media platforms, it demonstrates that so many people all agree and have the same excitement and joy over how they felt about Trump being banned from Twitter.

Allyn, Bobby, and Tamara Keith. “Twitter Permanently Suspends Trump, Citing ‘Risk of Further Incitement of Violence’.” NPR, NPR, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954760928/twitter-bans-president-trump-citing-risk-of-further-incitement-of-violence.