President Donald Trump sat at a small-looking desk to baselessly rant about election fraud on Thanksgiving, and Twitter users had a field day with the furniture.
Trump flipped out at a reporter, whined about the media and refused to say if he’ll attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration while taking questions from the press after a video chat with service members on Thursday.
Photographs from Trump’s presser soon became a meme as Twitter users joked the president had been moved to the kids’ table for Thanksgiving.
Maybe if you behave yourself, stop lying to undermine a fair election & start thinking of what's good for the country instead of whining about how unfairly you are treated, you'll be invited to sit at the big boy's table. #DiaperDon pic.twitter.com/nnNOoOI1gl
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) November 27, 2020
Is this a school play pic.twitter.com/nGrZAwRPvN
— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) November 27, 2020
It’s like one of those “just like Mommy” mini kitchen sets they sell in toy catalogs, but for the Resolute Desk. I can’t stop looking at it.
— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) November 27, 2020
The Resolute Desk Total Landscaping https://t.co/JNlcrPR6gL
— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) November 27, 2020
3/ LMAO — he knows. #TinyDesk https://t.co/SsGqOH35aB pic.twitter.com/sy5BdPx7K5
— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) November 27, 2020
I see no difference #tinydesk pic.twitter.com/6mRpPaIzaB
— morgan mayes (@Morgan_Mayes) November 27, 2020
Awww, look what Trump got for Christmas: Fisher Price’s ‘I’m still President’ Miniature Desk Playset! So cute... 😊 pic.twitter.com/P0yoSLKltF
— Caffeinated, Creative Mammal { Jon Carter }🇺🇸 (@MongolianMisfit) November 27, 2020
The already moved him to the Thanksgiving kids table... #tinydesk pic.twitter.com/T1kVDhhKvl
— Boomer Berman (@BoomerBerman) November 27, 2020
I still can’t quite believe this happened today.
— Noah Maher (@noahsparc) November 27, 2020
Whoever suggested that desk … thank you.#tinydesk #TinyDeskDonald https://t.co/9sQ6Ko1bMA pic.twitter.com/xKuU0DVjUD
May this be how we remember the Trump presidency: a baby at his tiny little desk throwing a tantrum pic.twitter.com/T26DjF1fL4
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 27, 2020
Is this the bunker desk?
— NurseSheepie 💙 (@NurseSheepie) November 27, 2020
#tinydesk pic.twitter.com/PTkyAq7scD
Donald Trump was moved to the kiddie table this Thanksgiving. Watch out, the grown ups are here now. #Thanksgiving #trump #tinydesk #BidenTransition pic.twitter.com/tAeQ1ZjnCN
— Rachel Wilder (@RachelWilder_) November 27, 2020
There is no pen. pic.twitter.com/48nNeiWjNi
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 27, 2020
Tiny Desk pic.twitter.com/ywvufrvqBy
— Light In The Attic (@lightintheattic) November 27, 2020
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series really went downhill pic.twitter.com/09N8oEfdZ2
— Walter Thompson (@YourProtagonist) November 27, 2020
This ain’t a desk this a nightstand. #tinydesk pic.twitter.com/JeBUMvdtDC
— Da Rarest Sagittarius 🧜🏾♀️ (@chai_jani) November 27, 2020
Lame-duck dropping the worst tiny desk concert ever.
— Mat Johnson (@mat_johnson) November 27, 2020
When Donald Trump learned President Obama had a tiny desk concert at the White House, clearly he misunderstood.
— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) November 27, 2020
Fitting. https://t.co/oa5QfPS75K
Just want to give an extra Thanksgiving shout-out to the person in Trump’s camp who walked out to look at that desk prior to today’s presser and went, “Yeah, looks good. Bring him in.” #hero pic.twitter.com/wR4TnBmZOg
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) November 27, 2020
NPR Tiny Desk Concert. pic.twitter.com/lsoGv51wnN
— Ken Jeong (@kenjeong) November 27, 2020
Thought this pic was photoshopped, but nope, just hilariously symbolic!
— Adam Lasnik (@thatadamguy) November 27, 2020
Mini desk. Tiny hands. Infinitesimally small soul. https://t.co/7cxumf1MFN
Speaking of #DiaperDon, whichever staffer tricked him into sitting at that tiny desk is a f'ing hero. I hope we find out their name someday so we can properly celebrate them. pic.twitter.com/FkjJ6ubkva
— David Roberts (@drvox) November 27, 2020
I used to love Lily Tomlin’s big chair bit, but Prez’s tiny desk gag was even better pic.twitter.com/Z8CwR0FfzS
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) November 27, 2020
hold me closer tiny-desk man
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) November 27, 2020
this tiny desk concert is weird pic.twitter.com/XriylReuDY
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) November 27, 2020
The best part about the tiny desk is this is where he got mad at a reporter and snapped “I’m the president of the United States. Don’t talk to me that way.”
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) November 27, 2020
A cartoonist couldn’t have imagined it better.
Aha I think I figured out where they did that tiny desk presser pic.twitter.com/ZVWbpT0LCV
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) November 27, 2020
There was an apparent explanation for the desk, however, which some people noted was usually used by the president when surrounded by others:
Here’s the thing about the small desk Trump is sitting at. It’s like... a bill-signing desk. It’s meant to have a dozen or so people around it. I think it might be small so that more people can cram in for a photo op.
— 📌 Pinned Tweet (@Mantia) November 27, 2020
It is not intended to be a desk you sit at alone. pic.twitter.com/LOc0M1bImE
Really, it’s not the desk that’s weird. This small desk has been used many, many times when Presidents sign bills into law. pic.twitter.com/71NSvgFJ71
— 📌 Pinned Tweet (@Mantia) November 27, 2020
Seriously. The desk is fine. Presidents have sat at this kind of desk for decades in signing ceremonies.
— 📌 Pinned Tweet (@Mantia) November 27, 2020
What’s *weird* is that Trump would want to sit at this desk to answer questions from the press. Get up. Go to another room. Like the Press Briefing Room, for instance. pic.twitter.com/G4550kVOCA
This is not the first time Trump has sat at the bill-signing desk either. In fact, years ago, he even remarked, “This is a child’s desk, but that’s okay.” https://t.co/hWVb2ZwF3S pic.twitter.com/KWAzAmKPx9
— 📌 Pinned Tweet (@Mantia) November 27, 2020
(Like, I’m all for poking fun at this fuckin’ bozo. Knock yourselves out. But as per usual, it’s his *behavior* that makes him a dum dum, not the damn piece of furniture. This desk is pretty heckin’ standard. You don’t have to make this out to be something it isn’t.)
— 📌 Pinned Tweet (@Mantia) November 27, 2020
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