"Vote Trump 2020" Family Band Video

About

"Vote Trump 2020" Family Band Video is a viral video featuring a group of adults and children singing a song about voting for President Donald Trump in the 2020 United States Presidential Election.

Origin

On June 17th, 2020, NBC journalist Cal Perry tweeted a video of the group singing the song outside a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The post received more than 22 million views, 95,000 retweets and 67,000 likes in less than two days (shown below).

Welcome to #Tulsa. People are already in line. Also, re-election songs. #MSNBC pic.twitter.com/P96d1HeMbD

— Cal Perry (@CalNBC) June 18, 2020

Spread

That day, Facebook user Adam Pol shared the video. The post received more than 149,000 views, 2,000 shares, 1,600 comments and 1,400 reactions in less than two days (shown below).

Some on Twitter mocked the song. Twitter^[1] user @lilsasquatch66 compared the group to a scene from the 2008 film Step Brothers. The post received more than 7,500 likes and 600 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, left).

In the two days following the video's posting, people continued to joke about the song and criticize the message. Twitter^[2] user @INDIEWASHERE shared the video and wrote, "'keep america great' bitch have you looked around lately." The tweet received more than 2,100 likes and 200 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, center). Twitter^[3] user @biggestjoel wrote, "the american populist aesthetic is so fucking bad." The tweet received more than 1,700 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

Some on Twitter posted parody versions of the song. Musician Ryan Scott Graham posted a version that received more than 305,000 views, 29,000 likes and 5,900 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below).

Several media outlets covered the song, including The Daily Dot, ^[4] Vice, ^[5] Mediaite^[6] and more.

pic.twitter.com/j7Bx2UQ7W3

— Ryan Scott Graham (@RyanScottGraham) June 18, 2020

On June 18th, Twitter user @LydiaBurell shared other videos of the group, two of which, Camille Marie and Haley Joy, refer to themsevles as "The Trumpettes" (shown below).

found em pic.twitter.com/7jeZyUtn6E

— LB™️ “𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧” (@LydiaBurrell) June 18, 2020

Various Examples

I fixed it pic.twitter.com/q8v500I7Us

— licc bass, not boots (@its_adamneely) June 19, 2020

collab? pic.twitter.com/H3iNxW1TEd

— 薰衣草 ↑% (@calebswasey111) June 18, 2020

Search Interest

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