President Donald Trump has in recent weeks turned on the allies who didn't show unfailing loyalty to him after his loss of both the popular vote and electors tally in the 2020 election. One of his targets is the channel that was instrumental in his 2016 electoral college win—Fox News.
Angered by Fox News correspondents fact checking his false claims, Trump posted a series of attacks against the network on Twitter.
Inspired by one of Trump's rants, actor Randy Quaid recorded a dramatic reading of the rant and shared it on Twitter with the caption:
"TIME TO MAKE OAN & NEWSMAX RICH. FOX IS DEAD TO ME!"
You mean, make Trump rich because of his vested interest in OAN and Newsmax, and punish Fox News for only pushing SOME of Trump's lies?
— D. Z. (@dwziegler) November 24, 2020
Apparently the President was impressed.
Trump retweeted the video.
@realDonaldTrump/Twitter
Can you imagine the level of desperation Trump must be feeling to retweet this?
The schadenfreude is so freakin' delicious.
— Timbo Resists (@TimFaulkner81) November 24, 2020
People were disturbed—or amused—by both the video and the President's sharing it.
yea, this seems normal
— FM (@frankmonah) November 24, 2020
Trump supporters, how on earth do you see this and not think it's pure insanity?
— Typical (@TypicalJAnt) November 24, 2020
pic.twitter.com/0qsZeZ8iCB
— Patti 🗽 (@PattiFromNYC) November 24, 2020
This is hysterical! I mean, what person who wants to be taken seriously as an adult decides to do super villain lighting!? You think you persuade the middle of America by having flashing colors and intoning lunatic conspiracies like Dr Doom!?
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) November 24, 2020
Wow when you are retweeting Randy Quaid you are scraping the bottom of the celebrity gene pool but I guess nobody with actual star power likes you so....🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
— Lady Deathstrike☠☠ (@Taranator1986) November 24, 2020
Can you even imagine, the leader of the free world retweeting such nonsense? Cannot wait to have a true leader and not a man baby teenager in office
— Stephanie G Culhane (@stephculhane) November 24, 2020
The jokes write themselves. pic.twitter.com/KbDuXVhpW4
— Lee Roges (@Lee_Roges) November 24, 2020
The President shared other tweets from Quaid.
While Quaid gained a fan in Trump for his unflinching loyalty, the rest of Twitter remains less than impressed.
Cousin Eddie is about to kidnap and hold @seanhannity @TuckerCarlson hostage til they give trump his Xmas bonus! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I AM FVCKING 💀💀💀⚰️⚰️⚰️
— ✨🏴☠️Immaculate🕯Loo😈🏴☠️✨ (@ImmaculateLoo) November 24, 2020
Poetic ending to @realDonaldTrump time in office. Riding off into the sunset with Cousin Eddie in his RV - with a full shitter. pic.twitter.com/bW2L77G5Xw
— ✨🏴☠️Immaculate🕯Loo😈🏴☠️✨ (@ImmaculateLoo) November 24, 2020
And then..... pic.twitter.com/j7Wof13noz
— Keith Brown (@KeithBrown123) November 24, 2020
Omg... @realDonaldTrump is retweeting @RandyRRQuaid & it's the funniest thing ever!!!! Sh*tter's full 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/laGOLp30md
— alicia_shesellsseashells (@alicia_stoney) November 24, 2020