Posted on 10/22/2025 6:47:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump’s team is trolling Democrats harder than ever during the shutdown. It's a page stolen from his campaign and his own online habits.
White House digital staffers have unleashed a social media strategy full of taunting memes and fake videos, following President Donald Trump’s lead in a bid to bolster his base as the government shutdown drags on.
The amped-up tactics are meant to mock Democrats for their proposal to reverse recently passed restrictions on Medicaid, which the GOP falsely claims pays for health care for undocumented immigrants. The memes include a recurring stunt of placing animated sombreros atop images of Democratic leaders.
Democrats, for their part, have not responded in kind on social media. Instead, they have mostly stuck to sharing their segments on cable news, and posting explainer videos on the health care tax credits they’re pushing to extend in negotiations. They’ve also continued to criticize the president’s social media activity.
Which approach wins out in the minds of voters and vulnerable lawmakers could help determine how long the shutdown continues and which party ultimately gets more of what it wants.
The online attacks underscore a social media apparatus surrounding Trump that reflects his own personal digital habits and brazen approach to politics. His aides are “very much in tune with President Trump’s style, which is ‘controversy enhances message,’ and social media helps enhance that controversy,” said Bryan Lanza, a former Trump campaign senior adviser.
That was “a theory in Trump 1.0,” Lanza added, a reference to the president’s first term. “It’s just become a proven fact in Trump 2.0," he said.
Case in point: In a late-night post on his preferred platform, Truth Social, Trump shared a video showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the first Black person to hold...
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Translation: Dems are losing and it’s just not fair. Waaah!
Nah.
BSNBC.
They have nothing. Schumer shutdown continues.
So the democrats are not giving illegal aliens free Healthcare? I don’t believe it. It’s PMSNBC after all.
Anyone who talks about “winning” a shutdown is automatically an abject loser. The GOP offered a simple, clean CR to 21 Nov.
The secret weapon is Thanksgiving.
Oh, the Horror! the Democrats have voted 12 times for 42 Million Americans to go hungry on Thanksgiving, because they refuse to fund food stamps and SNAP!
Don’t the Democrats have any empathy? Don’t they care about children?
Children starving in America? On Thanksgiving? Oh, the humanity!
They should blast ads like that, with lots of sad and angry looking people holding their children on every TV station and social media platform EVERY day from today until Thanksgiving.
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