Democrats gloat over Trump’s mug shot: ‘We got you’

Democrats were quick to gloat over former President Trump’s arrest at the Fulton County, Ga., Jail on Thursday night and the release of his history-making mug shot.

The only mug shot ever taken of a current or former president quickly ricocheted around the world — and around X, the platform previously known as Twitter.

House Judiciary Democrats shared the mug shot with the caption, “No one is above the law.”

Despite having been arraigned on three prior indictments, the mug shot taken of Trump on Thursday in Georgia was his first.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) shared a video of him laughing at the mug shot photo and saying, “We got you, and more to come. … Clown, thug, crook, criminal.”

However, in later posts on X, Bowman added that in a “normal world” a Trump mug shot would have been the “end of his political career,” but “his poll numbers are actually going up.”

“This mugshot is not what you think it is. It’s a jackpot for Trump who will use this image to raise MILLIONS of dollars from his cult – and the worst part is they are going to use it to win even more elections so they can change our laws to make it easier to steal our Democracy,” he added.

Georgia Democratic Rep. Nikema Williams also reposted the mug shot with the caption, “POV the law applied equally to everyone even failed former presidents.”

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) shared a photo collage of Trump and some of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, saying, “Here’s the story, of a man named Donald, who was busy with four arrests of his own… The RICO Bunch, the RICO Bunch.”

President Biden fundraised off the news cycle with tweet saying, “Apropos of nothing, I think today’s a great day to give to my campaign.”

Trump also used his surrender at the Fulton County, Ga., Jail on Thursday evening to raise funds for his 2024 campaign. “Today, at the notoriously violent jail in Fulton County, Georgia, I was ARRESTED despite having committed NO CRIME,” Trump said in a personal note on his campaign website, featuring his mug shot.

The Trump campaign is also selling merchandise, including T-shirts, mugs, koozies and bumper stickers, featuring his mug shot and the phrase “Never surrender.”

But it wasn’t just the mug shot of the former president that was the fodder of jokes on social media for Democrats.

Rudy Giuliani, one of the 18 co-defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s years-long investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, also had a mug shot taken when he surrendered Wednesday.

“Smile Rudy your on camera,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) quipped on her Instagram story shortly after his mug shot was released.