Donald Trump was arraigned in New York on Tuesday, making history as the first president to ever face criminal charges. Also making history on the same day? The trailer release of Greta Gerwig's upcoming live-action film Barbie, which has been gaining buzz online for the past year and immediately swept attention away from the court proceedings.
priorities are in order
SHES COMING #Barbie
WELCOME TO BARBIE LAND, did you bring your rollerblades?🌟 @BarbieTheMovie only in theaters July 21
As new promotional posters revealed which A-list celebrities would be making an appearance in the film (Dua Lipa! Michael Cera! Issa Rae! Kate McKinnon! Ncuti Gatwa!), and people began parodying the posters with inserts of themselves or their own favorite celebrities, many users could not help but point out the irony of these two cultural moments colliding on our feeds.
Trump seeing Barbie take away his attention today
between the barbie movie, trump getting arrested, the harry potter movie being in the works & the little mermaid stills releasing…this is TOO many different emotions at once 😭
Trump under arrest, Barbie movie trailer released, and Shrek 5 in the works!!?!!
And many took the opportunity to do what the internet does best — make a crossover episode.
"getting a barbie trailer and potentially a trump mugshot is the closest i've gotten to seeing world peace in my lifetime," one wrote.
getting a barbie trailer and potentially a trump mugshot is the closest i've gotten to seeing world peace in my lifetime
As soon as it was released, "Barbie" and "REAL CINEMA IS BACK" began trending on Twitter, usurping "#IndictmentDay" and "#TrumpArraignment."
re barbie
"Barbie" is still the top trend in the United States on Twitter as of Tuesday afternoon.
can't believe even Trump is in the new Barbie movie
"I’ve been dreaming of a day like this my whole life," writer Zoë Rose Bryant tweeted. Even celebrities joined in on the fun.
The cast of Barbie is bigger than this Trump rally 🗽
One person even referenced a meme that went viral after the New York Times reported on Trump's criminal charges. The newspaper's tweet announcing the news — "He will be fingerprinted. He will be photographed. He may even be handcuffed." — has been widely parodied.
It better be pink. It better be fun. It better sparkle. It better be referential. https://t.co/DUzii03FNi
"It better be pink. It better be fun. It better sparkle. It better be referential," the user joked on Tuesday in reference to the frame.
Barbie will be in theaters on July 21, and the fate of Donald Trump will be known sooner than that.
17 tickets to barbie movie pls
"Today is a day for CINEMA," YouTuber Zach Kornfeld tweeted.