At 2:18 EST yesterday, nearly every cellphone user in America received a text message from Donald Trump. And people weren’t happy about it.
It read:
The message was sent to 75% of the cellphones in America and was a test of the new presidential alert system.
The way the system is works is the president sends an alert to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which then sends it out to every cellphone in the country.
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The alerts aren’t supposed to be used for any purpose other than “to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.”
Of course, with Donald Trump in charge, people don’t have much faith that he won’t abuse the system.
The internet’s response to the alert was pretty unified. It seems nobody–not a single American–wants Trump texting them.
First, the tweets…
Am I the only person questioning why there is a sudden need to test our National Wireless Emergency System? #PresidentialAlert pic.twitter.com/kAneZTiwJT
— Mr. Energy??? (@RunRandallRun) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/medonnelly01/status/1047554786663358465
If Twitter bans President Trump, he can just text us! #PresidentialAlert
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 3, 2018
The only #PresidentialAlert I wanna get is when that mothafucka is removed from office…
— Cyrus McQueen (@CyrusMMcQueen) October 3, 2018
Presidential Alert: THIS IS A TEST of the American Democratic Alert System. Our president is dangerous, reckless, ignorant, hostile to women, hostile to critics, friendly to enemies, callous to victims, harmful to our environment…Urgent action is needed.
— Judy Chu (@RepJudyChu) October 3, 2018
was in an apple store during the “presidential alert system” test so you can imagine how that went ???
— Cathy Kelley (@catherinekelley) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/acodeofsiIence/status/1047553255251890177
https://twitter.com/_Snape_/status/1047608888755769344
The Vice Presidential Alert System only goes to half the country because Mike Pence won't text any woman who's not his wife. #presidentialalert
— Omar L. Gallaga (@omarg) October 3, 2018
How do I stop a sexual predator from texting me?
Asking for 225,000,000 friends. #PresidentialAlert— Frances Fisher (@Frances_Fisher) October 4, 2018
FEMA is testing its #PresidentialAlert system starting 2:18 PM ET: "Expect a message box on your phone along with a loud tone and vibration." pic.twitter.com/nG3QlXws5z
— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 3, 2018
We don’t need a text…. most Americans are already on a constant #PresidentialAlert
— aasif mandvi (@aasif) October 3, 2018
And now, the memes…
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Boe3PLYnfaQ/?tagged=presidentalalert
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