The presidential alert meme is here for all of your emergencies

Got an announcement to make? The presidential alert meme is here for you. 

Americans got a text from none other than Donald Trump at 2:18 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Sort of. 

Phones lit up with the Wireless Emergency Alert system’s first nationwide test. The presidential alerts provide direct communication between the White House and Americans in case of a national emergency, like a disaster or a terrorist attack.

And because the internet can’t leave anything alone, the test became a meme. 

From asking the quintessential “u up?” to declaring that his hair is perfectly fine, the meme imagines Trump using the alert system to text his citizens.  Read more…

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