WTF! I didn’t know this!
On October 13th, 2015, Donald Trump tweeted an illustration of Pepe as himself standing at a podium with the President of the United States Seal (shown below).[45] Within 16 months, the post gathered upwards of 11,000 likes and 8,100 retweets.
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