Friday, July 15, 2016

What is the T doing to that P?

Donald Trump announced today, not unexpectedly, that Mike Pence (Republican governor of Indiana) is his choice for running mate. Soon after, the Trump campaign released the official Trump-Pence logo.

Twitter immediately reacted. Fun was had by all. One observer wondered how parents were to be expected to explain the logo to their children. Others marveled at how the T and P brought forth immediate images of branding for toilet paper.

From NPR:
In minutes, it seemed, one logo turned all of the Internet into 12-year-olds. Perhaps it is fitting. In an election where candidates on both sides of the aisle have been acting like adolescents — trading petty insults, getting into Twitter fights, discussing the size of their manhood, riffing on Pokemon — we should have expected at some point for all of us involved to totally take this whole thing back to middle school.