The Internet Responds To Donald Trump’s Refusal To Debate Bernie Sanders With #ChickenTrump

Most of America was interested in a debate for the first time in months this week thanks to Donald Trump’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live this past week. Kimmel hit Trump with a question from Bernie Sanders — his guest for the following night — involving a possibly debate in California. Trump said it was a good idea and proceeds should go for charity, Sanders loved the idea, America loved the idea, and several networks lined up to make this happen. We even got a bunch of offers for money, with The Young Turks offering up $1 million towards a debated and Bob Arum’s Top Rank putting up a whopping $20 million to make it happen.

Then Trump pulled out. His campaign released one of those memorable statements online and effectively killed any debate that could’ve happened:

Based on the fact that the Democratic nominating process is totally rigged and Crooked Hillary Clinton and Deborah Wasserman Schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win, and now that I am the presumptive Republican nominee, it seems inappropriate that I would debate the second place finisher. Likewise, the networks want to make a killing on these events and are not proving to be too generous to charitable causes, in this case, women’s health issues. Therefore, as much as I want to debate Bernie Sanders – and it would be an easy payday – I will wait to debate the first place finisher in the Democratic Party, probably Crooked Hillary Clinton, or whoever it may be.

It’s one of those “open door/closed door” type of statements, but folks online decided that this statement made one thing very clear about Donald Trump: he’s a chicken. So is Hillary Clinton, apparently, leading to the hashtags #ChickenTrump and #ChickenHillary. Some could likely attribute this to the #BernieBros movement, but the entire election is already dumb enough. #ChickenTrump is a tag that doesn’t need any help to stand and it has led to many folks putting their best ideas forward on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/brendanfillmore/status/736330914192580608

It has also brought back two top notch gifs from earlier in the election, giving them a fresh and realistic feeling:

But don’t think that was it for the memes, gifs, images, and reactions. Twitter provided a bevy of reactions for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton refusing to debate Bernie Sanders.

https://twitter.com/m3trik/status/736525994518007808

https://twitter.com/MsTrishLynn/status/736525932895318016

https://twitter.com/END_OLIGARCHY/status/736429272970072065

https://twitter.com/WhichhHilllary/status/736420704418029568

https://twitter.com/GreenMyHouz/status/736413792867753984

https://twitter.com/BERNIEORBUST1/status/736310093919051776

https://twitter.com/Lexialex/status/736454201253986304

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/736399120751960064

https://twitter.com/zachhaller/status/736394796550348804

https://twitter.com/TheBaxterBean/status/736371429193682944

https://twitter.com/zachhaller/status/736352471040155648

And as long as this continues to be news, the hashtags should continue and should give Drake some reason to clap — since he’s certainly not clapping for the Raptors now.

The only dark side to this current wave of reactions is how it’s giving chickens a bad comparison:

https://twitter.com/debostic/status/736342012333416453

As George Carlin pointed out during the early days of the 21st century, chickens are decent people. They don’t deserve this kind of comparison from the public.