The Brief: An image from the press conference where President Trump declared a "national emergency" over Coronnavirus has become a meme template for Trump poster memes.
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Trump poster memes use an image of Donald Trump looking at a poster presented by Dr. Deborah Birx, an American physician and diplomat who serves as the coronavirus response coordinator in the White House. This image comes from a March 13, 2020 Coronavirus-related news conference where Trump declared a national emergency and denied responsibility for issues with slow test kit distribution.
This image macro format can be used in an infinite number of ways as the poster can be photoshopped to have anything on it. Often, these memes criticize the Trump administration’s response to the crisis caused by the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
On the news that Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson tested positive for COVID-19:
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