President Trump said a lot of eyebrow-raising things in his wide-ranging, 77-minute press conference today.
There were… well, we’ve got a recap of all of it right here. There’s a lot!
But Twitter jumped on one phrase the president kept returning to.
At least twice during the presser, in response to stories about chaos in his administration, the president declared that his office ran like a “fine-tuned machine.”
Pres. Trump: “This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can’t get my cabinet approved.” pic.twitter.com/Rtj3jSN09o
— ABC News (@ABC) February 16, 2017
Savvy and humor-inclined web users jumped all over it.
https://twitter.com/SwampyTrump/status/832342875849400320
Do you think the GIFs about it were great? The GIFs were GREAT.
FAKE NEWS: Trump – “This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine.”
Real news: see below pic.twitter.com/qSGAOQ65RT— Stop Trump (@StopTrump2020) February 16, 2017
“My administration is running like a fine-tuned machine.”
– Trump 2/16/17 pic.twitter.com/FOZPxylzyJ— Chris (@COverholster) February 16, 2017
“This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine” pic.twitter.com/IcWO7vKy11
— Matt Viser (@mviser) February 16, 2017
“My administration is running like a #finetunedmachine.” @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/7uU3DSoZ8J
— Rev. Varg Vargas (@vargvargas) February 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/RealPMurphy/status/832359051614879745
Trump press conference: President says his team running ‘like fine-tuned machine’ pic.twitter.com/EeSWX37JqB
— The Poke (@ThePoke) February 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/glourie_/status/832359930271264771
“This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine” pic.twitter.com/RE9Op24eGl
— Ryan George (@theryangeorge) February 16, 2017
Trump says his administration is a fine-tuned machine: pic.twitter.com/OwaqobKmwV
— Tuxedo Yoda (@TuxedoYoda) February 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/andytoots/status/832356383244722176
I’ll tell you what is running like a fine-tuned machine: Twitter’s rapid responses to everything the president says.
