Last night, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump faced off in their first (and maybe only) presidential debate. After weeks of anticipation and questions like, will Harris bait him? Will Trump be able to put a coherent sentence together? Will the fact checkers be able to keep up?, all eyes were half on the debate and half on social media to see what everyone had to say. Here are some of our favs:
First, let’s start with the all-star line-up of reactions to Trump’s “illegal transgender aliens” comment that popped up on our feeds:
illegal transgender alien pic.twitter.com/FzKYxsWbIk
— zoë rose bryant (@zoerosebryant) September 11, 2024
transgender operations on illegal aliens pic.twitter.com/glXG5ImZvS
— trin (@lovelltrin) September 11, 2024
the illegal aliens after their transgender operations pic.twitter.com/ghMyzfaSKn
— ↭ 𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗥𝗘 ↭ (@MalikHaelstrom) September 11, 2024
“They’re doing transgender surgeries on illegal aliens” pic.twitter.com/FTYOwftHe9
— jamie (@justjamiie) September 11, 2024
Then, we were whiplashed with Trump’s wild and overtly racist claim that Haitian immigrants are eating the pets of people in Springfield, Ohio.
I can’t believe “they’re eating the dogs” was a REBUTTAL to “You say weird stuff at your rallies”
— Kylie Brakeman (@deadeyebrakeman) September 11, 2024
call me haitian the way i be eating her cat
— Letty (@borntopiss) September 10, 2024
A handful of people noticed that Trump seems to have switched up his makeup routine.
donald using a nyx jumbo eye pencil in the shade milk on the lower waterline
— bald ann dowd (@ali_sivi) September 11, 2024
He changed the color of his make-up! Now he’s darker than Kamala! Is he turning black? It won’t help. pic.twitter.com/wQNXM7g9xl
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 10, 2024
Why does Trump have microbangs
— Маделейн . (@normalmadeline) September 11, 2024
The toughest job of the debate had to be the moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis. Especially when Davis had to say out loud into a microphone with all sincerity, “There is no state where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born.”
THE HAIR
— iCON Billingsley (@iCONtips) September 11, 2024
THE MUG
THE SUIT
THE STRIPES
THE SHIRT
THE SHOULDER
THE ONE. pic.twitter.com/911wD0Rtad
Queer icon and legend Keke Palmer had just one word to describe Harris’s performance.
Chewed.
— Keke Palmer (@KekePalmer) September 11, 2024
And many celebrities showed their support for Kamala Harris following the debate by sharing pictures with their cats, including Taylor Swift.
