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Trump’s ‘SEE YOU IN COURT’ is the great new Twitter threat

The president tried to intimidate, but everyone just laughed.

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When the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision on Donald Trump‘s immigration ban, all eyes were glued to one Twitter account: @dril.

Just kidding. Everyone was waiting to see what torrent the president would unleash, and he did not disappoint, issuing only the second all-caps utterance of his presidency.

But as happens with most of the president’s actions, what was meant to be a stern admonishment delivered to nation with gravitas quickly became the butt of thousands of internet jokes.

For starters, the owns were savage. 

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But the riffs were great, too. 

https://twitter.com/Law_and_policy/status/829973389628600320

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/829840887777685504

Those were all well and good, but as is always the case, we probably should have just looked to @dril

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