Twitter Has Field Day Over Trump’s Weird Water Break During Speech: ‘America Thirst’
This afternoon, President Donald Trump delivered his big national security speech in which he identified four “pillars” of America’s strategy, all largely centered on the president’s overarching “America First” philosophy and ideology. He labeled North Korea a “rogue regime” and said adversarial countries challenged American power and influence as they attempted to erode American prosperity and security.
But forget all that. Trump once again had to take a water break in the middle of a speech, and it was weird.
Trump just used both of his hands to awkwardly drink water again pic.twitter.com/A3W9PPl2rq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 18, 2017
Trump manages to drink water using just one hand this time, then says: “Really good!” pic.twitter.com/suFK8BuI44
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 18, 2017
As you may recall, then-candidate Trump took great joy in mocking Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) during the 2016 GOP presidential primary. Besides constantly calling him “Lil’ Marco,” Trump also mocked Rubio for his very thirsty response to Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address.
Karma, of course, came back to bite Trump when the parched president was forced to take a sip of water in the middle of a speech last month, leading Rubio to do some mild trolling of his own. And, of course, much of the rest of the internet pointed and laughed along.
With Trump once again needing to pause and quench his thirst during a speech, Twitter had jokes. And quite a bit of the reaction centered on Trump’s strange double-handed grasp of the small water cup.
#Trump drinking a glass of water with both hands during his national security strategy speechhttps://t.co/NOWhXuG8S3 pic.twitter.com/O9bn1mVK3m
— Louis Emanuel (@louisjemanuel) December 18, 2017
America Thirst pic.twitter.com/fG8c9gXmW2
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) December 18, 2017
one of these was a joke, two of them are real pic.twitter.com/E4bAPY5Y6i
— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) December 18, 2017
when, national security speech or no national security speech, you gotta drop that harmonica solo pic.twitter.com/7RyJQUr1Ak
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 18, 2017
Trump drinks water like Gollum eats fish https://t.co/g44QEdxKlq
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 18, 2017
What is it with Trump and his two-handed chimpmunk-like style of drinking water? pic.twitter.com/0BvrYiDiRr
— Tom the Dancing Bug (@RubenBolling) December 18, 2017
Trump sure is having a lot of awkward water-sipping moments for someone who mercilessly mocked Rubio for the exact same thing. pic.twitter.com/I7w4evNkXB
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) December 18, 2017
Get you a man (or a woman) who holds you as delicately as Trump holds his water. pic.twitter.com/7aqxyHo02N
— April Michelle (@aprilmichelle00) December 18, 2017
I believe we as a country need to spend more time talking about how Donald Trump drinks water.https://t.co/LuFErDwYwu
— jess mcintosh (@jess_mc) December 18, 2017
straight up this is how a raccoon eats garbage pic.twitter.com/yEAZPWRrPB
— Mall Santa (in training) (@SortaBad) December 18, 2017
Can someone please explain to me why President (COUGHbabyhandsCOUGH) Trump needs two hands to drink a glass of water?pic.twitter.com/zsBhcv9fsv#MondayMotivation
via @atrupar— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) December 18, 2017
Fantastic technique. This is…freeze it here. Look at this: two hands, alpha scrunch, lapping away like a dang kitty cat. He's just having fun out there. pic.twitter.com/k2I0Zkouf3
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 18, 2017
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