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Donald Trump mocked for giving Thanksgiving speech from tiny desk
- #DiaperDon trends on Twitter and Trump was compared to a child banished to a kid’s table on Thanksgiving for throwing a tantrum
- Some noticed uncanny similarities between the event and a 2017 Saturday Night Live sketch that used a tiny desk as a punch line
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President Donald Trump’s press conference on Thursday was his first since losing the US election – and an unusually small piece of furniture stole the show.
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After conducting a call with US troops for Thanksgiving, Trump responded to reporters’ questions about the election largely by stirring baseless allegations of electoral fraud, at one point snapping at a reporter.
Many viewers, however, seemed distracted by the tiny desk at which the president was seated. Some likened it to a child’s desk and wondered whether images showing it had been altered (they had not).
#DiaperDon was soon trending on Twitter, and the president was compared to a child banished to a kid’s table on Thanksgiving for throwing a tantrum.
The topic seemed to rile the president, who in a tweet accused the platform of fabricating “totally false ‘Trends’ that have absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world.”
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