[BBC] Donald Trump continued his march towards the Republican Party nomination in the US by taking three more primaries. And where there's a Trump win, there's a social media reaction.Yeah, but he lost Wyoming...
This time it was #ifTrumpwins that gathered momentum, bringing hope and levity to the serious world of campaign politics.
If Trump wins he'll discover the job's tougher than he anticipated. He'll also have to keep his life insurance paid for when some professional advocate of love and tolerance shoots him, probably with an illegally acquired AK...
Oh, so he's gonna keep Biden as vice-president?
Or, that was the intention when Comedy Central's Midnight programme incited its 500,000 followers to play with the hashtag.
Oh, wow. Comedy Central. That'll give us an unbiased view.
Over 10,500 tweets mention both @midnight and #iftrumpwins, making up nearly 40% of the original tweets on the hashtag. The trend peaked at 7,468 tweets in the hour 0500-0600GMT with the fearful perspective of Dubai-based EDM producer Shuja Rabbani a top tweet.
... predicting WW3 will start in the Middle East, all because of The Donald.....
Two tweets from @PoliticsJim helped drive the trend, garnering more than 6,000 retweets between them. Both involved satirising Trump's campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again".
Four words. Kinda hard to garble them, but they tried...
One involves a playful take on popular American painter and TV personality Bob Ross, whose PBS programme The Joy of Painting brought him worldwide fame in the 1980s and 1990s.
The National Debt becomes a "money tree" with Trump supporters as birds. I guess they'll communicate with each other on their Obamaphones.
Another saw Jim subverting the slogan with cake, transforming it to "Bake America Cake Again" - a sentiment all Americans passionate about patisserie can get behind, regardless of politics.
It's so stoopid it's meaningless. Perhaps a Marie Antoinette reference? After Michelle and her quarterly vacations to places none of us can afford to go anymore?
Judging by the spread of branded wine, water and meat Trump brought to his post-victory presser, no one is going to go hungry if he wins.
That was probably from some press guy, gnawing the hand that fed him/her/it...
While we're on hunger... Well done to Doomsdavid for getting a topical twist into the #ifTrumpwins + Hunger Games formula.
"Steak to the winner of the hunger games." I went to the grocery store recently, now that I can drive again. I couldn't afford steak. A decent cut was going for $16 or so per pound. I still grilled steaks periodically when the current Emperor took office.
And for those of you playing along who don't like cake or steak, there's Keem's very American offer in the event that we find ourselves writing "President Trump"...
The writer suggests he (the writer, not Trump) will buy everyone a new car. His handle is Keem. Remember that so you can claim the keys to your new DeSoto or Studebaker, or maybe a Rambler American.
This is the latest example of the way in which digital media is now playing its part the Presidential race, following on from Super Tuesday's spike in searches for "move to Canada", which of course got another outing.
Meaning all the commentary has been juvenile, spiteful, and trite. That announces the death of Twitter, doesn't it?