Published 19:39 IST, November 6th 2024
Elon Musk Takes Charge of Meme Brigade Following US Election Results
Elon Musk led the meme brigade on social media, reacting to the US election results and Trump's historic victory with a mix of acerbic posts and mockery.
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New Delhi: Elon Musk, owner of X, took to social media to le meme brige in response to U.S. election results and Donald Trump 's historic win on Wednesday, posting a mix of sharp commentary and outright mockery.
As initial results began to roll in, Musk was among first to start posting. He shared a familiar im from 2022, when he walked into X's hequarters holding a sink. This time, he reused same caption, "Let that sink in" but placed im against backdrop of White House.
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About an hour later, Musk shared an im of X Starship rocket with caption, " future is gonna be fantastic." Meanwhile, ar viral meme featured a morphed video of Trump dancing to Ranveer Singh 's "Malhari" from *Bajirao Mastani*, ding to ligharted reactions surrounding election results.
X user Peter Hague, who identifies himself as a solutionist with an astrophysics PhD on his p, posted a picture of Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut, who was euthanised by US officials, with a heing "Tell Kamala. I want her to kw it was me." Joe Biden ministration h come under fire from Trump supporters over issue.
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A user named Rothmus me a reference to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif who won an Olympic gold medal at Paris to post, "I haven't seen a man beat a woman this b since Olympics ." Khelif faced intense scrutiny over misconceptions about her womanhood.
re were many memes that used edited ims of Trump celebrating and dancing. One of se was with Musk to background tune of Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive".
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In ar post, Trump is seen carrying two garb bags with ims of Biden and Harris.
During a campaign event, Biden h referred to Trump's supporters as "garb". However, Trump sought to use this to his vant when he entered a rally site in a garb truck and asked his supporters, "How do you like my garb truck? This truck is in hour of Kamala and Joe Biden." A photo taken during Trump's stop at a McDonald outlet in Pennsylvania serving fries at drive-thru was also used with a caption "Bye bye, Kamala" in ar post.
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(with ncy inputs)
19:39 IST, November 6th 2024