A lesson to judges who use social media: Be careful of the jokes you make mocking a presidential candidate. You never know if you’ll end up on his or her list of potential Supreme Court nominees
Don Willett, one of the judges named by Donald Trump Wednesday as a possible pick for the nation’s highest court, is best known as a conservative justice on the Texas Supreme Court. But for those on legal Twitter, he is also known to be pretty funny. Willett’s Twitter feed is a glorious litany of clever memes, silly gifs and 140-character jokes. Not surprisingly (though, now, ironically) some of those jokes have been made at Trump’s expense and have mocked the outrageous twists his campaign has taken.
Behold:
“We’ll rebuild the Death Star. It’ll be amazing, believe me. And the rebels will pay for it.”
—Darth Trump pic.twitter.com/y25LADg15J— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) April 8, 2016
Low-energy Trump University has never made it to #MarchMadness. Or even to the #NIT. Sad! ? pic.twitter.com/DWcfJOZkPu
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) March 15, 2016
That time @WilliamShatner flew Trump Airlines. pic.twitter.com/ok8dF0BsOj
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) March 11, 2016
Trump to “the evangelicals”—
“I’ll be the best thing that’s ever happened to them.”
ps—Happy Easter, everyone! pic.twitter.com/a1mGbY8a9p
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) March 9, 2016
Just imagine if Trump were an editorial cartoonist.
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) December 23, 2015
Can’t wait till Trump rips off his face Mission Impossible-style & reveals a laughing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. pic.twitter.com/LieabD35zb
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) August 27, 2015
That time Donald Trump tried to give Kanye my cell number. pic.twitter.com/E5IgQguOOv
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) July 22, 2015
Donald Trump haiku—
Who would the Donald
Name to #SCOTUS? The mind reels.
*weeps—can’t finish tweet* pic.twitter.com/a326AP0mN1— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) June 16, 2015
Trump’s explanation for this will be PURE COMEDY GOLD.
He’s a conservative Justice, but he can snark pretty well.
Yep. “He’s fired.”
I knew it! There was no way Trump could put together or put out a list without at least one embarrassment like this. I guarantee a few of those people are getting media inquiries out of the blue because no one from the campaign bothered to give them a heads up.
Is everybody trying to bring Donny down?