--- 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: 2026-04-13T07:40:38.131Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 31, 2017 5:07 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order surrounded by small business leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order surrounded by small business leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg /Getty Images 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4655165/donald-trump-meme-gifs-executive-orders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4655165/donald-trump-meme-gifs-executive-orders/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump","datePublished":"2017-01-31T17:07:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:38.131Z","description":"The internet is turning a picture of Trump's signed executive order into children's doodles.","url":"https://time.com/4655165/donald-trump-meme-gifs-executive-orders/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"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=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"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=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Signs Executive Order In Oval Office Of The White House","caption":"U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order surrounded by small business leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017.","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg /Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4655165/donald-trump-meme-gifs-executive-orders/","name":"The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump"}}]}] ```