This seems like an evergreen statement, but Donald Trump should really, really stop tweeting. With Michael Cohen’s guilty plea admitting to making false statements to Congress involving Russian contacts and plans for building a Trump property in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign, it would seem for all intents and purposes that Trump could soon be buried under a house of cards. Yet, that didn’t stop him from tweeting just about the worst possible thing on Friday morning.
From Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Trump is in town for the G20 Summit (and where he was supposed to meet with Vladimir Putin before mysteriously canceling) he unleashed the following whopper onto the world.
“Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly),” tweeted the president. “Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail… Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn’t do the project. Witch Hunt!”
Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2018
….Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn’t do the project. Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2018
Though there are so many worthy of consideration, this may very well be the silliest tweet of Trump’s entire Twitter career. And it didn’t take long before the rest of the internet to zero in on five words, in particular, which quickly became a meme.
It was just some light collusion and light obstruction, your honor. All very legal and very cool.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) November 30, 2018
“In extreme wealth born and raised,
In my dad’s shadow where I spent most of my days,
Chillin’ out, maxin’, very legal and very cool,
Buildin’ condos for fascists outside of the school”— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) November 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1068480038553686017
"it's very legal and very cool" is what I say to my kids when they catch me smoking weed
— Rob (@robrousseau) November 30, 2018
“Very legal and very cool” was how they pitched Franklin and Bash.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) November 30, 2018
very legal, very drool pic.twitter.com/QZixpfiRlR
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 30, 2018
It’s gonna be awhile before “very legal and very cool” stops being hilarious to me. https://t.co/55VRRphdfR
— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) November 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/1068511493136629760
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/1068505456514162691
In the criminal justice system, the president is protected by two separate but equally important groups: The Russians, who help him do crimes crime, and the white supremacists, who support his agenda. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Very Legal & Very Cool *dun dun*
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) November 30, 2018
“Very legal and very cool” sounds like how a teenager would describe huffing paint to get his friends to try it.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) November 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1068487546542407681
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1068523184037580802
*billy madison talking to the imaginary penguin voice*: https://t.co/knh7TwboiJ
— ceeks (@70Ceeks) November 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/BradJChester/status/1068496318002270209
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, how find you?"
"Your honour, we find the defendant very not guilty, very legal and very cool." https://t.co/hXYvFlN7xS— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 30, 2018
Oh! Hahaha! Come in, I didn't see you there. Everything we are doing here is very legal, very cool, man, nothing is fucked here. Namaste. https://t.co/gGJBeeZTdp
— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) November 30, 2018
Question for Mueller: any of this usable? https://t.co/lHb9V5JrX3
— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) November 30, 2018
At this point, invoking the 25th Amendment would be very legal and very cool.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) November 30, 2018
Trump’s resignation would likewise be very legal and very cool to many people, but it seems like he probably won’t go down without a fight.