Donald Trump managed to exceed everyone’s lowest expectations on Thursday by claiming he could have stopped 9/11. This puts him in the illustrious company of Mark Wahlberg and your drunk uncle, probably. The Internet was quick to make jokes about Trump’s latest grandiose claim about what he could do if we’d only just let him. Just as Trump has been raked over the coals with hashtags like #TrumpExplainsMoviePlots and #WhoSays and #AskTheGays, Twitter was back with more sarcasm for the presidential hopeful. All these flavors, and they chose to be salty.
It started with a question posed by igorvolsky accompanied by the hashtag #ThingsTrumpWouldHaveStopped.
What else would've Trump stopped?
Pearl Harbor?
WWII?
Sinking of Titanic?#thingstrumpwouldhavestopped https://t.co/LtaIAupw5K— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) September 8, 2016
The vast majority of the responses were the roaring landfill conflagration we’ve come to expect from politics on the internet, but a few tweets stood out as amusing. We’ve collected our favorites below.
https://twitter.com/ladyMP13/status/774052025814351873
He would've made sure the dinosaurs died in America that way we'd have all the oil. #thingstrumpwouldhavestopped
— tired_intexas (@ms_intexas) September 9, 2016
#thingstrumpwouldhavestopped That damned illegal alien Columbus…he would built a big wall and Ferdinand & Isabella would have paid for it
— Hammy ✈🇺🇲🇮🇱 (@e2pilot) September 9, 2016
#thingstrumpwouldhavestopped The crucifixion of Christ as he would have made a great deal with Pontius Pilate, great guy, big fan, smart
— Steve Cardamenis🟧 (@SCardamenis) September 8, 2016
Ted Cruz's father from assassinating JFK #thingstrumpwouldhavestopped
— TrumpsTaxes (@TrumpsTaxes) September 8, 2016
Letting the dogs out #thingstrumpwouldhavestopped
— Jeffrey Chavez (@area51jeff) September 9, 2016
Some people kept their answers short and to the point:
#thingstrumpwouldhavestopped progress
— Melissa (@domesticaffairs) September 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/1DaytATime/status/774067748376686592
https://twitter.com/KyleSprague4/status/774067428535918593
https://twitter.com/tuasmig/status/774094986916696065
https://twitter.com/Mpowelljr/status/774046159023202306
Some people had to up and Godwin’s Law this whole thing:
https://twitter.com/ACBadBeat/status/774043623734206465
This being Twitter, somebody had to be that guy:
Harambe's death #thingstrumpwouldhavestopped
— Jay Mo (@jay_jmor) September 9, 2016
And this one is on to something:
#thingstrumpwouldhavestopped
Actually, the best thing he can stop is his campaign.— R. De Vaul (@Fmrgreenberet) September 9, 2016
But then, right at the end — boom! — incepted.
Trump would've stopped this hashtag #thingstrumpwouldhavestopped #inception
— Jon Startin (@Jon_Startin) September 8, 2016
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM.
(Via #ThingsTrumpWouldHaveStopped)
