The Funniest Tweets About Monday Night’s Presidential Debate

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Did you watch Monday night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Chances are, you probably did, as the event is expected to be one of the most-watched televised events in history. And Twitter was seemingly the place to be for jokes about the proceedings, firing off quick jabs and jibes just as the social media platform previously went in on Donald Trump with hashtags like #ThingsTrumpWouldHaveStopped and #TrumpExplainsMoviePlots and #WhoSays and #AskTheGays. We’ve collected some of our favorite tweets from last night below.

People had even more to say about Trump’s sniffling and more theories about the cause:

Some were quick to summarize the debate and compare it to other things:

https://twitter.com/blyan/status/780579224436350976

https://twitter.com/briangaar/status/780579634316316672

https://twitter.com/PhillyD/status/780597638978678784

https://twitter.com/seinfeId/status/780584320448815104

https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/780597139789455360

https://twitter.com/thejoshpatten/status/780588093766270976

https://twitter.com/rashadalaiyan/status/780587520547368960

And they had fun with debate moderator Lester Holt saying, “Let’s talk about race.”

https://twitter.com/_MikePearson/status/780584584555532288

Although some people, including Patton Oswalt, thought moderator Lester Holt should have moderated a little bit more:

https://twitter.com/WGladstone/status/780597672143126528

There was plenty of skepticism about Trump referring to the at least $1 million from his dad as “a small loan”:

And it seems Trump lost the “400-pound hacker” vote:

https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/780591844451385344

And some of the jokes verged into gender politics, inevitable considering Trump interrupted Clinton 51 times in 90 minutes and said she didn’t have a “presidential look”. First, there were the jokes about women being accused of not smiling enough, or smiling too much, but never the right amount of smiling.

https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/780611944973737984

Then there were the jokes about the frequent interruptions and Trump’s history of misogyny:

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/780578815596691457

https://twitter.com/danagould/status/780584054819135491

https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/780574147067994113

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/780577197639790593

That’s a burn.

But Twitter wasn’t done yet:

https://twitter.com/thatRamosgirl/status/780598154844524544

https://twitter.com/gabrielgironda/status/780599538012852224

https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/780594953785335810

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