The Internet is abuzz with memes and comments about President Donald Trump’s bathrobe selection after a bizarre series of events in which the White House eventually denied that he wears a robe to watch TV.
The New York Times published an article on Sunday that mentions Trump “watching television in his bathrobe,” which resulted in Press Secretary Sean Spicer deriding the article for multiple alleged falsehoods, adding, “I don’t think the president owns a bathrobe.”
Trump didn’t care for the story himself and took to Twitter to express his displeasure, saying the paper is “making up” stories and sources, with the bathrobe being a detail Trump doesn’t think came from a legitimate source.
“That story was so riddled with inaccuracies and lies that they owe the President an apology for the way that thing was written,” Spicer said. “I don’t think the president wears a bathrobe, and definitely doesn’t own one.”
Politico watchdogs were quick to offer old photos of Trump wearing a bathrobe that were part of a Daily Mail exclusive. But, in fairness, they appear to be at least a few decades old. We hope that if Trump does own a robe, it’s not the same one in the now-viral photos.
Trump’s bathrobe even has it’s very own Twitter account.
Oh I exist.
— POTUS' Bathrobe (@POTUSBathrobe) February 6, 2017
Check out some of the reaction:
.@seanspicer Trump has hotels. Each room has a bathrobe. There's probably a warehouse full of bathrobes. He definitely has a bathrobe.
— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) February 6, 2017
Ummm, I'm not a football effort, but I think this might be Tom Brady's Super Bowl jersey hanging next to me in the closet. ?
— POTUS' Bathrobe (@POTUSBathrobe) February 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/828792083997679616
I pray I go the rest of my life not knowing how Sean Spicer became aware of Trump not owning a bathrobe
— Fiddler (@cFidd) February 6, 2017
Sean Spicer: "I don't think the president owns a bathrobe."
Anyone with internet access: pic.twitter.com/SNZBoG0Zcn
— Casey Clemmons (@casey_clemmons) February 6, 2017
Thanks @PressSec @seanspicer I just threw up thinking of @POTUS & his #tinyhands wo a robe watching tv @CNNPolitics https://t.co/0TPA7gWsob
— Vote November 6th (@subbaga) February 7, 2017
Spicer says that @POTUS does not own a bathrobe…here are two pieces of evidence. cc: @BraddJaffy @maggieNYT @GlennThrush pic.twitter.com/OBi24QcVx2
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 6, 2017
I don't like that I've thought about Trump in a bathrobe in the last 24 hours.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 7, 2017
Wait: A woman playing Trump doddering around the White House in a bathrobe, unable to work the light switches, tweeting about SNL
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) February 7, 2017
Need a recommendation on how to get out a Big Mac's special sauce stain.
— POTUS' Bathrobe (@POTUSBathrobe) February 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/828768873927159809
Stop tweeting Trump in a bathrobe you sick bastards.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 6, 2017
Speaking of Donald Trump and bathrobes, Mike Rowe once auctioned an autographed Trump bathrobe https://t.co/gxBktjoCYd pic.twitter.com/V7vB6mQ6xT
— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) February 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/828717232570171392
https://twitter.com/best_president4/status/829036125662482432
https://twitter.com/trump_bathrobe/status/829036043907321856
https://twitter.com/SpinDr/status/829035912860299264
https://twitter.com/powderkeig/status/829035688205053952
Hey @realDonaldTrump I just subscribed to @nytimes because I value their reporting. By the way, I'm writing this tweet in my bathrobe…
— Paul Matthews (@ajosshi) February 7, 2017
Trump is freaked out that the NYTimes says he wanders the White House in a bathrobe at 6:30 p.m.
Sad
Trump
Alone
Meandering
In
New
Abode— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/828760881647480833
Sean Spicer: "I don't think the president owns a bathrobe." (via @justinsink
Let's see, Google "Trump" "bathrobe" … OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/bnb0odcTXD
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 6, 2017
Spicer tweeted his opinion of the situation on Tuesday:
"OMG, he's trying to get us to talk about terrorism. What do we do?"
"Jump on the bathrobe story"
— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) February 7, 2017