--- ---  # 'Plaid Shirt Guy' Trolled Trump on Live TV By Making Very Animated Faces 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  US President Donald Trump waves to the crowd during a "Make America Great Again" rally in Billings, Montana on September 6, 2018\. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) US President Donald Trump waves to the crowd during a "Make America Great Again" rally in Billings, Montana on September 6, 2018\. (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) Plaid Shirt Guy Who Zina Bash Replaced at Trump Rally Is Viral ```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"}}]}] ```