With “Super Tuesday” just around the corner, the still-surviving presidential candidates are working tirelessly to make their biggest and best push yet for votes and delegate counts. Sure, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is probably already thinking about who his running mate will be, but that doesn’t mean his nomination is a done deal — especially with CNN’s GOP Debate on Thursday on the horizon. Hence why endorsements are still flying, like the one Red State managing editor Leon Wolf just dropped for junior Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Maybe it was the lateness of the endorsement, or maybe it was the fact that Wolf had the cojones to broadly title it, “My Endorsement for President.” Whatever caused Wolf’s article to go viral, however, doesn’t really matter, as the phrase “My Endorsement for President” became a Twitter trend soon after publication. And all things being equal, the social media platform’s best (and worst) trolls adopted it as their own.
This is contemporary American politics we’re talking about, so of course, so the initial reactions to Wolf’s article were either monumentally positive or egregiously terrible.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/702833942320324609
Thank you @LeonHWolf for supporting @MarcoRubio for president! #Marcomentum https://t.co/qTXa2VXiww
— Alex Conant (@AlexConant) February 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/TuPadreDice/status/702867371141296128
https://twitter.com/ConservMemes/status/702864391595823104
However, the real responses came after the mostly angry dust had settled. That’s when the people’s real presidential endorsements came to the fore.
https://twitter.com/rmecheeya/status/702874720203620352
My Endorsement for President is Master Kenobi. At least you know he won't sleep with his intern (or anyone else). pic.twitter.com/in9sPyz7rH
— Star Wars (@StarWarsPR) February 25, 2016
My endorsement for president is this👇 guy! ! pic.twitter.com/YOwD8NYuo1
— Stephanie Pinckney (@sp235) February 25, 2016
My Endorsement for President Magilla Gorilla. "You want it! You got it!" pic.twitter.com/JTPbgVwzHz
— Katherine Morrison (@kmorrison) February 25, 2016
My Endorsement for President is Harrison Ford pic.twitter.com/f1mXegamXt
— Jeff Dwoskin Has A Podcast (@bigmacher) February 25, 2016
My Endorsement for President: #VoteCaptainAmerica pic.twitter.com/ZDQb3h54te
— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) February 25, 2016
My Endorsement for President: @Frank_Underwood
— Slim D. Giancana (@FrancisMayCry) February 25, 2016
My Endorsement for President: Dwayne Elizando Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. #VoteCamacho! #Idiocracy pic.twitter.com/M8r2yKeJzI
— Hintman (@HintMan) February 25, 2016
Aside from Wolf’s bit on Rubio, none of these tweeted endorsements are ever really going to amount to anything. Then again, considering how eerily similar Trump is to Idiocracy‘s President Camacho, who knows? After all, Trump would be the kind of president who would bring an automatic weapon to the State of the Union Address. Probably.