Donald Trump made good on his threats to run for president, announcing his campaign for the Republican nomination today — and the Twitterverse was there to greet him.
Conservatives on Twitter were in no rush to welcome Trump as a serious candidate:
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But national spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, Holly Shulman, tweeted out a zinger of a statement welcoming Trump to the race by noting Jeb Bush’s announcement a day earlier and congratulating Trump for adding “some much-needed seriousness that has previously been lacking from the GOP field”:
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Still, some on Twitter found themselves impressed by the glitz of Trump’s announcement:
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But mostly, Twitter users just laughed at the host of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice:
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