Corey Lewandowski's 'Womp Womp' Co-opted by 4Chan, Daily Stormer, Reddit

Corey Lewandowski’s ‘Womp Womp’ Co-opted by 4Chan, Daily Stormer, Reddit
Trump’s ex-campaign manager dismissed a story about an immigrant girl with Downs syndrome to widespread condemnation—except on the fringe internet.
Will Sommer
06.21.18 2:31 PM ET


Corey Lewandowski offered a dismissive “womp womp” reaction on Fox News on Tuesday to a story about immigrant girl with Downs syndrome being separated from her mother.

Lewandowski’s remark came after liberal Fox News guest Zac Petkanas recounted the story of the girl, separated from her mother under the Trump administration’s family separation rules.
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“Womp womp,” Lewandowski said.

“Did you just say womp to a 10-year-old with Downs syndrome being taken from her mother?” Petkanas said. “How absolutely dare you, sir?”

CNN reported that the remark cost Trump’s former campaign his deal with a speaker’s bureau.

But his atrocious remark has fared much better on the right-wing internet, where “womp womp” has been embraced both as fodder for countless racist memes and as an increasingly popular response to liberals on a variety of issues.

On right-wing sites like 4Chan’s /pol/ forum, Lewandowski’s two-word rebuttal has been turned into countless memes. Several play off “Straight Outta Compton,” rephrased as “Straight Outta Wompton,” sometimes with Lewandowski photoshopped into smoking a blunt.

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