--- title: Eminem Pausing in the Donald Trump Rap Video Becomes Meme description: Eminem's rap about Donald Trump has become a hilarious meme about awkward pauses. canonical: https://time.com/4985439/eminem-trump-meme/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-17T14:14:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:57:19.963Z og:title: Eminem's Anti-Trump Rap Video Is Your New Awkward Pause Meme og:description: The internet can't stop laughing about it og:url: https://time.com/4985439/eminem-trump-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d19da9a83c04820/6988e17b656a3fd8c1bd20bd/eminem-mtv-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3441 og:image:height: 1936 og:image:alt: 2014 MTV Movie Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eminem's Anti-Trump Rap Video Is Your New Awkward Pause Meme twitter:description: The internet can't stop laughing about it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d19da9a83c04820/6988e17b656a3fd8c1bd20bd/eminem-mtv-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Eminem's Anti-Trump Rap Video Is the Only Awkward Pause Meme the Internet Ever Needs > Sponsored content. 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Last week, the rapper unleashed a fiery verse that became an instant hit at the [BET Hip-Hop Awards](http://time.com/4977218/eminem-freestyle-trump-bet-hip-hop-awards/) earning high praise, staunch criticism and a response from _Saturday Night Live’s_ President Trump character. In the politically charged diss, he hammers [Trump](http://time.com/4978126/trump-eminem-endorsement/) for the government response to devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, and the violence in Charlottesville, but now the internet has a much more humorous take on one clip. [Eminem’s](http://time.com/4978179/daisy-ridley-eminem/) video opens on a parking garage where Eminem pauses, wondering how to start. “It’s the calm before the storm right here. Wait, how was I gonna start this off? I forgot,” Eminem began the four-minute clip. Marshall Mathers was musing about his blistering freestyle rap. He was not deciding what to order at a restaurant or a bunch of other imaginative captions the internet ran with. Come up with a relatable situation that everyone needs a minute to think about, and that’s how you know you’re getting the maximum potential out of this moment. The results are highly amusing: > [](https://twitter.com/RodriguezDaGod/status/919719920614674432) It took off from there. > [](https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/920033933311451137) > [](https://twitter.com/NotAgainBen/status/920031307685605376) > [](https://twitter.com/s%5Fphia%5F/status/919770159421755393) > [](https://twitter.com/LeKingJames23/status/919747937143472130) Watch the full video below. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Just to come before the storm right here, Wait, how was that gonna start this? I forgot. Yeah. That's an awfully hot coffee pot, should I drop it on Donald Trump? Probably not. But that's all I got until I come up with a solid [ BLEEP ]. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Gotta plan and now I gotta hatch it. Like a damn Apache with a tomahawk. I'm a walk inside a mosque on Ramadan and say a prayer that every time. Talks! [ BLANK_AUDIO ] She gets a map, argh! I'm a stop. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But we better give Obama props Cuz what we got in office now's a kamikaze that'll probably cause a nuclear holocaust. And while the drama pops, and he waits for **** to quiet down, he'll just gas his plane up and fly around until the bombing stops. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Intensity's heightened, Tensions are rising. Trump, when it comes to giving a ****, you are as stingy as i am. Except when it come to having the balls to go against me, you hide them. Because you don't got the **** nuts, like an empty asylum. Racism is the only thing he is fantastic for. Cuz that's how he gets his rocks off, and he's orange. Yeah, sick tan. That's why he wants us to disband, cuz he can not withstand the fact we're not afraid of Trump. Walking on egg shells, I came to stomp. That's why he keeps screaming drain the swamp, cuz he's in quicksand. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] It's like we take a step forwards then backwards but this is his form of destruction. Plus he gets an enormous reaction when he attacks the NFL. So we focus on that, instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada. All these horrible tragedies and his [ INAUDIBLE ] would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ MUSIC ] Tiki torches in hand for the soldier that's black. And comes home from Iraq and is still told to go back to Africa. Fork and a dagger in this racist 94- year- old grandpa who keeps ignoring our past historical, deplorable factors. Now if you're a black athlete, you're a spoiled little brat for trying to use your platform or your stature To try give those a voice who don't have one. He says you're spitting in the faces of vets who fought for us, you bastards. Unless you're a POW who's tortured and battered cause to him you're zeros cause he don't like his war heros captured. That's not disrespecting the military. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] That. This is for Colin, ball up a fist. We'll keep that **** balled, like Donald the ****. He's gonna get ride of all immigrants. He's gonna build that thing up taller than this. Well, if he does bill it, I hope it's rock solid with bricks, cause like him and politics, I'm using all of his tricks, cause I'm throwing that piece of **** against the wall till it sticks. And any fan of mine. Who's a supporter of his. I'm drawing in the sand a line. You're either for or against. And, if you can't decide, who you like more in your split. On who you should stand beside. I'll do it for you with this. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] The rest of America stand up. 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