--- 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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(Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images 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) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5390134/plaid-shirt-guy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5390134/plaid-shirt-guy/"},"headline":"'Plaid Shirt Guy' Trolled Trump on Live TV By Making Very Animated Faces","datePublished":"2018-09-07T16:39:51.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T17:44:35.000Z","description":"The plaid shirt guy trolled President Donald Trump on live tv before Zina Bash could replace him.","url":"https://time.com/5390134/plaid-shirt-guy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71f0cc4fe4b67812/698939b3db298724a92609d5/trumprallyplaidshirtguy.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/blt71f0cc4fe4b67812/698939b3db298724a92609d5/trumprallyplaidshirtguy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP","caption":"Plaid shirt guy trolls Trump on live TV","creditText":"NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/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/5390134/plaid-shirt-guy/","name":"'Plaid Shirt Guy' Trolled Trump on Live TV By Making Very Animated Faces"}}]}] ```