Robert Evans

And that is a reference to Warhammer 40,000 in 40K, as its fans call it.

The God Emperor is the founder and deity of the Imperium, a vast million world empire that includes nearly all human beings.

He was once a mighty warrior and a deadbeat dad, but he spent the last 10,000 years or so hooked up to life support.

So you can already see, you know, the guy likes gold.

He's always covered in gold and he's a terrible father.

So you can see why Donald Trump gets compared to him from time to time, right?

That's right, that's right.

And the emperor, being a being who's lived tens of thousands of years, is kind of insinuated to maybe have been Jesus, or at least somebody who profited, was influential in starting the early church.

He's been insinuated to have been basically everybody.

But getting beyond that...

If you haven't don't know anything about Warhammer and you just heard the phrase God Emperor Trump, you probably didn't think too much about it outside of like, oh, people are being weird about politics again in the United States.

Right.

Trump is kind of a singular figure when it comes to global media attention, so it's not all that noteworthy that fans of a game would reference him in memes.

What makes this one unique is that people using the phrase and spreading memes about it are kind of as likely to be mocking the president as praising him.

It's a real Schrodinger situation, and this aspect of it is really well embodied by something very funny that happened on February 11th, 2019, over in Italy.

The Via Regio Carnival is an event held in Via Regio, a city in Tuscany, and has been a yearly parade and celebration since 1873.

It started when a bunch of rich guys decided to make a parade with floats that would help put the city on the map in a cultural sense.

And rather than funding the parade themselves, they pushed to increase taxes on working class citizens and poor people protested by wearing masks and presumably committing petty crimes, right?

So you've got...

Like a classic story here.