--- title: Donald Trump Emojis for CNN Debate description: Donald Trump emoji, stickers, keyboard launched by app Imoji just in time for CNN Republican presidential debate canonical: https://time.com/4149938/donald-trump-keyboard-imoji-emoji/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 15, 2015 7:34 PM UTC   by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 15, 2015 7:34 PM UTC The app imoji, which allows users to create “stickers” that they can text to friends, has [created](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-donald-keyboard/id1051561714?mt=8) a series of images for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Most of the pictures, which appear on iPhones and iPads, imagine the real estate mogul in crazy hairstyles, from a man bun to Abraham Lincoln’s hair. They manipulate real photographs of the businessman, as opposed to the emojis for presidential candidates that CNN [released](http://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/2016-emoji) earlier this year. In fact, when the next GOP presidential debate airs Tuesday night on the cable news channel, the app expects interest in its Donald Trump keyboard to be [“huuuuge.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2DgwPG7mAA) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4149938/donald-trump-keyboard-imoji-emoji/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4149938/donald-trump-keyboard-imoji-emoji/"},"headline":"The Inevitable Donald Trump Emojis Have Arrived","datePublished":"2015-12-15T19:34:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:50.702Z","description":"They imagine the real estate mogul in even crazier hairstyles","url":"https://time.com/4149938/donald-trump-keyboard-imoji-emoji/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt267d6156c44e877b/6988756f196cf4505703978a/donald-trump-imoji-keyboard-emoji.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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