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President Posts Memes Comparing Two Senate Candidates to Cartoon Characters
The president shared memes on Truth Social depicting two Democratic Senate candidates as Pee-wee Herman and Alfred E. Neuman. The posts came hours after an Independence Day eve speech at Mount Rushmore. The candidates are running in Georgia and Texas.
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Neuman from Mad magazine. The posts followed a speech the president delivered at Mount Rushmore on July 3. In that address the president described communism as the opposite of American values and linked Democratic candidates to the ideology. The president returned to the White House shortly after 4 a.m. on July 4.
The president has previously compared another Democratic figure to the Mad magazine character.
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