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The TED Interview

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You're Saying Throwing Shade on the White House

I thought it was my civic duty. I didn't think he understood what it meant to be an american. So i posted a picture of president obama by the resolute desk with the red curtains in the background. That very first post, someone said that i was shading trump. And you know, over the subsequent weeks, i would do my little snarky captions and responses to a presidential tweed or story. Youve said that when your account was first described as throwing shade, you had to look the term up.

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