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Did you catch the presidential debate Tuesday night? It was pretty embarrassing for Donald Trump, if we’re being completely honest. Kamala Harris was poised, intelligent, and delivered a real vision for the future of the country. And Trump… well, he rambled about migrants eating cats and said he was “a leader on fertilization.” Just another Tuesday night like any other in 2024.
Put simply, Trump’s brain is broken. And when Trump is spouting nonsense—which is more and more frequently these days—social media lights up with fun jokes about what an idiot he can be. The memes started even before the 90-minute debate was over. And some of them are quite funny.
We’ve got a collection of some memes about last night’s debate that we’ve been seeing around the internet. The web is a huge place, obviously, so we haven’t seen them all. But that’s what the comment section is for. Please direct us to your favorites if you don’t see them here.
On Trump’s Racist Lies That Migrants Are Eating Cats and Dogs
Trump tried to claim at the debate that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating pet cats and dogs, a lie that went viral after being started by far-right influencers on X.
I better go superviral for this… pic.twitter.com/00Laf5QUrx
— Fearghas Kelly (@FearghasKelly) September 11, 2024
— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) September 11, 2024
“In Springfield they’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats and they’re eating the pets!” pic.twitter.com/QR6FoRBH2u
— PATRIK (@PatrikSandberg) September 11, 2024
Pets across America watching the debate like pic.twitter.com/klxtr0QH91
— Brianna Turner (@_Breezy_Briii) September 11, 2024
THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/JAiy8Vpdiq
— glizzy gladiator (@drizzydri66) September 11, 2024
Seen near St. Petersburg, Florida –yes, this is real pic.twitter.com/9SDcpMQfPg
— Lesley Abravanel 🪩 (@lesleyabravanel) September 11, 2024
On Trump’s Bizarre Discussion of IVF
Trump said during the debate that he has been “a leader on fertilization” while talking about IVF. Trump is aligned, of course, with the same Republicans who want to outlaw the practice, just like the judges in Alabama who sent IVF patients into a panic when they ruled back in February that frozen embryos were actually human beings.
Trump: “I’ve been a leader on fertilization” pic.twitter.com/pj6D6RaLWE
— Keith 🌴🥥 (@nagy_minaj) September 11, 2024
"I have been a leader on fertilization." pic.twitter.com/99prhnfrlJ
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) September 11, 2024
"I have been a leader on fertilization." pic.twitter.com/RTOqOPycQN
— Star Trek Minus Context (@NoContextTrek) September 11, 2024
On Trump’s ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens’
Trump insisted during the debate that Harris wants to perform “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison,” leading to lots of jokes about what Trump may have meant. E.T. was a popular guess.
https://t.co/wbM71iFKn1 pic.twitter.com/DsqYEyYWHH
— felix PVF 🐥 🍉 (@ifyoulethimstay) September 11, 2024
illegal transgender alien pic.twitter.com/FzKYxsWbIk
— zoë rose bryant (@zoerosebryant) September 11, 2024
A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song. pic.twitter.com/6icWLe1sPN
— Noah Garfinkel (@NoahGarfinkel) September 11, 2024
On Trump’s General Shittiness as a Human Being
Other people just created their own helpful commentary to the debate, adding the words that perhaps Harris couldn’t say for herself out of a sense of decorum.
I SAID IT FOR HER. Lmfaooo https://t.co/A9lccokRLk pic.twitter.com/JbYHXI3JRj
— Scottie (@ScottieBeam) September 11, 2024
On Trump’s Concepts of a Plan
One of Trump’s most embarrassing lines from the night was when he was asked about his constant claims that he’ll repeal Obamacare. Trump is always whining about the Affordable Care Act and insisting that he’ll repeal and replace it with something “much better.” When asked why he didn’t do that during his four years in office, Trump didn’t have a good answer and rambled. When the ABC News moderator followed up by pointing out that it doesn’t sound like he actually has a plan, Trump said “I have concepts of a plan.”
That line became a meme, of course.
Me when I have a concept of a plan pic.twitter.com/ZcSSyVHQtM
— Harry Hill (@veryharryhill) September 11, 2024
"I have concepts of a plan." pic.twitter.com/2KBqnL1Ocf
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) September 11, 2024
“I have concepts of a plan” pic.twitter.com/ELVCRWA5hM
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) September 11, 2024
"I have concepts of a plan." pic.twitter.com/6vKmFLOSP3
— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) September 11, 2024
On Guns
Anyone watching Tuesday’s debate may have been surprised to hear that Kamala Harris owns a gun. But she does. And jokes about Trump’s whining about how Harris wants to take your gun are particularly funny.
Trump: “She wants to take everybody’s guns!”
Kamala: pic.twitter.com/nsjooEKddO
— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) September 11, 2024
Kamala to Trump: "I am a gun owner. Stop lying." pic.twitter.com/yNwyI65OFu
— Stephen Hoskins 🔰🏗️🧦🪩 (@GeorgistSteve) September 11, 2024
TRUMP: She wants to take away your guns
KAMALA: pic.twitter.com/vkTWkkLzJ2
— Maicol 📺 (@michaelcollado) September 11, 2024
Trump: She’s going to take your gun
Kamala: Bitch I have a gun
— Adam (@adamgreattweet) September 11, 2024
The debate was a resounding success for Harris, but it remains to be seen how much the performance from both candidates will actually move the needle when Election Day rolls around on November 5. FiveThirtyEight’s national polling average currently has Harris polling at 47% and Trump at 44.3%, though it will obviously come down to the battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Thankfully, Harris is doing well in those, but it’s still close enough to be considered a neck-and-neck race.
Whatever happens on Election Day, people are going to make memes about it. But whether those are nice and positive and funny memes will largely be determined by whether a racist, neo-fascist piece of shit takes power yet again.
