--- title: Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement Speech: Internet Reactions description: Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump for president has caused quite the social media stir. canonical: https://time.com/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-20T16:13:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:57.155Z og:title: The Internet Had a Field Day with Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement og:description: No one really knew what was going on og:url: https://time.com/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Had a Field Day with Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement twitter:description: No one really knew what was going on twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Had a Field Day with Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement Speech  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 20, 2016 4:13 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 20, 2016 4:13 PM UTC [Sarah Palin’s endorsement](http://time.com/4185689/donald-trump-sarah-palin-endorse-2016-election/) of Donald Trump for president has caused quite the social media stir. The [former governor of Alaska](http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908669,00.html) and one time vice-presidential candidate appeared with Trump to formally announce the endorsement at an event held in a barn at Iowa State University on Tuesday. Of course, the Internet immediately went to work parodying [Palin’s](http://time.com/4186315/sarah-palin-son-arrested-track-palin/) words with a series of tweets, memes and Vines. **Many focused on one particular segment of the speech:** > [](https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/689734267266600960) > [](https://twitter.com/josefoshea/status/689779916473237504) > [](https://twitter.com/zachbraff/status/689681822049939456) > [](https://twitter.com/kevinddaly/status/689692953128898560) > [](https://twitter.com/reichenstein/status/689730936741715968) **While others were unsure of the message she was trying to convey:** > [](https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/689725294006132736) > [](https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/689602264617451520) > [](https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/689830220287729664) > [](https://twitter.com/BenMank77/status/689721746686111744) > [](https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/689759467223805952) **And some commented on the larger ramifications of the endorsement:** > [](https://twitter.com/BuckyIsotope/status/689649300712763392) > [](https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/689602827509825536) > [](https://twitter.com/WillBlackWriter/status/689732397626200065) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/"},"headline":"The Internet Had a Field Day with Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement Speech","datePublished":"2016-01-20T16:13:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:57.155Z","description":"No one really knew what was going on","url":"https://time.com/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","Internet","Donald Trump","Sarah Palin","2016 presidential race","2016 presidential campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/","name":"The Internet Had a Field Day with Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement Speech"}}]}] ```