--- title: Donald Trump: Internet Memes Make Fun of Order Signings description: The internet is turning a picture of Trump's signed executive order into children's doodles. canonical: https://time.com/4655165/donald-trump-meme-gifs-executive-orders/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-31T17:07:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:15:17.790Z og:title: The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of Trump og:description: From executive order to drawing of a cat. og:url: https://time.com/4655165/donald-trump-meme-gifs-executive-orders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb88b9a2261e89b1d/6988b7d3524fc0150bdfae95/donald-trump-executive-order-small-business.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: President Trump Signs Executive Order In Oval Office Of The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of Trump twitter:description: From executive order to drawing of a cat. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb88b9a2261e89b1d/6988b7d3524fc0150bdfae95/donald-trump-executive-order-small-business.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump > Sponsored content. 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President Trump took his first steps toward implementing his economic agenda Monday, signing an executive action removing the U.S. from a planned free trade deal and meeting with some of the country’s top business leaders._ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 31, 2017 5:07 PM UTC President Trump took his first steps toward implementing his economic agenda Monday, signing an executive action removing the U.S. from a planned free trade deal and meeting with some of the country’s top business leaders. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 31, 2017 5:07 PM UTC President Trump is learning the hard way not to hold up pieces of paper before people on the internet. After signing a number of executive actions [greenlighting a border wall](http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/), withdrawing from the [Trans Pacific Partnership](http://time.com/4643380/donald-trump-tpp-mexico-city-trade-business/) and [suspending a refugee program](http://time.com/4652552/president-trump-is-suspending-a-refugee-program-and-banning-visas-from-7-countries/) during his first week in the Oval Office, Trump has made it a habit of holding them up afterward for cameras. But where there’s a blank piece of paper, sign, or poster, the internet will reliably find a way to turn that canvas into endless possibilities. So unsurprisingly, this photo has lit up [the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/5r7xpn/kat/?st=iylqqwgg&sh=c1549cfd), where users have transformed the GIF of Trump displaying a signed order into crude illustrations of the time-honored children’s doodle canon that only a mother could love, and various visual gags. See some below. A “kat”: > [](https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/826314938872246273) A house: > [](https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/826309917166358529) A personal attack: > [](https://twitter.com/studioexec1/status/825967135650349056) A fictional ban: An impressive throwback collection: One user also got quite meta. ## Transcript [00:00] All right we're gonna sign three memorandums [00:04] right now. The first one is a withdrawal of [00:08] the United States from the Trans- Pacific Partnership. [00:10] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:15] Everyone knows what that means, right? [ SOUND ] We've [00:18] been talking about this for a long time, thank you. [00:19] [ SOUND ] Okay. [00:31] [ SOUND ] [00:35] Great thing for the American worker, what we just [00:36] [ SOUND ] Next a Federal [00:41] Government employee hiring freeze. [ SOUND ] Except for [00:41] the military. Except for [00:46] the military. Except for the military. [ SOUND ] Next [01:01] is the policy in regard to Mexico City. [ NOISE ] That's [01:18] it. Thank you, President. Thank you very much. Thank you. [01:21] Mr. President, reaction to the lawsuit today? That's it. 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