The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious. There were jokes about conscription. Captions about getting drafted, ...

Memes can make you laugh, fill you with outrage, or make you feel pride. They repackage shared cultural knowledge to activate existing schemas in surprising, entertaining, or outrageous ways. They are ...

The video opens on Donald Trump sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. One hand is held to his head, the other grips a mobile phone, about to blast a late-night rant across Truth Social. Next, we see ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Donald Trump is a huge fan of acronyms, memes, and nasty nicknames — unless they’re being used against ...