Trump Bill Signing
Where it came from
A 2017 photo of then-President Trump holding up a signed executive order for the camera, grinning proudly. The image of him displaying a blank signature page became a meme for inserting fake decrees.
Trump holds up a signed document to the camera, beaming. The original document is replaced with whatever ridiculous new law, ban, or proclamation the poster wants to imagine him signing. "Today I signed a bill making it illegal to put raisins in cookies."
The format works because the pose is so self-congratulatory — the arms-out display, the wide grin, the practiced showman energy — that it fits any absurd declaration. You can use it for actual political commentary or for completely made-up personal decrees.
Still used, though the politics around the image make it charged in a way that limits where it shows up now.
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