--- title: Plaid Shirt Guy Who Zina Bash Replaced at Trump Rally Is Viral description: The plaid shirt guy trolled President Donald Trump on live tv before Zina Bash could replace him. canonical: https://time.com/5390134/plaid-shirt-guy/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-07T16:39:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:44:35.000Z og:title: Plaid Shirt Guy Trolled Trump on Live TV og:description: The internet caught him right behind the President making some expressive faces og:url: https://time.com/5390134/plaid-shirt-guy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71f0cc4fe4b67812/698939b3db298724a92609d5/trumprallyplaidshirtguy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4752 og:image:height: 2673 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Plaid Shirt Guy Trolled Trump on Live TV twitter:description: The internet caught him right behind the President making some expressive faces twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71f0cc4fe4b67812/698939b3db298724a92609d5/trumprallyplaidshirtguy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Plaid Shirt Guy' Trolled Trump on Live TV By Making Very Animated Faces > Sponsored content. 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Trump Talks About Impeachment at Montana Rally_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:44 PM UTCPublished: Sep 7, 2018 4:39 PM UTC Trump Talks About Impeachment at Montana Rally by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:44 PM UTCPublished: Sep 7, 2018 4:39 PM UTC One of the attendees at Donald Trump’s rally in Montana turned himself into a meme. While all ears were on the President’s remarks about everything from the [anonymous New York _Times_ op-ed](http://time.com/5389879/colbert-anonymous-oped/) to [praise for Brett Kavanaugh’s](http://time.com/53897/trump-montana-rally-kavanaugh-progress/) confirmation hearing, eyes drifted to a man the internet dubbed “plaid shirt guy” who stood positioned right behind Trump’s shoulder. For the first part of his speech, plaid shirt guy made animated facial expressions which ranged from bewilderment to skepticism. He wasn’t there the whole time. The man was removed in the middle of Trump’s speech, and another attendee took his place. But he was there long enough to generate a number of screencaps and GIFs. Despite the fact that it’s impossible to know exactly what he was wordlessly communicating, people drew the conclusion that he did not look impressed. See some of the reactions to plaid shirt guy below. > [](https://twitter.com/choibboy/status/1037947300381908992) > [](https://twitter.com/jamesallen/status/1037886064105545733) > [](https://twitter.com/IamKatieMoe/status/1037961894005432320) > [](https://twitter.com/IamKatieMoe/status/1038007855096332288) > [](https://twitter.com/Squanch%5FMe/status/1037889627225501696) > [](https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1038050762981613569) > [](https://twitter.com/IamKatieMoe/status/1037961894005432320) > [](https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1038033158615261184) ## Transcript They like to use the impeach word. Impeach Trump. Maxine Waters, we will impeach him. But he didn't do anything wrong. It doesn't matter we will impeach him. We will impeach. But I say how do you impeach somebody that's doing a great job, that hasn't done anything wrong? Our economy is good. How do you do it. How do you do it. We will impeach him, but he's doing a great job. Doesn't matter. Remember that line. He's doing a great job. That doesn't matter. We'll impeach him. It is a hell of a place in Washington. You know, I was thinking if that happened, every time a republican or a democrat. Opposite. Got elected President. So let's a say a Democrat gets elected someday, hopefully it's a long time. Boo. But let's say a Democrat gets elected. And let's say we have a Republican House. We will impeach that Democrat. Right? And then, a Republican We won by a lot, we won by a hell of a margin, that ` s a lot of, that ` s a lot that electoral college we won by a lot. Okay so we are in there we have got the best employment numbers in our history, we have got the best economy in our history. You look at the numbers in every category, it's great. We're doing a great job. We're putting on phenomenal judges. And you take that, and you do then what you're going to have is you'll have a country that's going to turn into a third world country. Because if the opposite party becomes president Every time before it even starts, before you've even found out whether he or she is going to do a great job, they'll say we want to impeach him, and you'll impeach him. It's so ridiculous, but worry about that if it ever happens. But if it does happen, it's your fault cuz you didn't go out to vote. 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