On February 13th, 2017, Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft tweeted a photograph of himself and White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich standing behind the White House press briefing room lectern while making the hand gesture (shown below). Within four months, the tweet gained over 14,000 likes and 7,400 retweets. On December 3rd, Malik Obama tweeted a picture of himself making the symbol while wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat, along with the caption 'I look like Pepe the Frog' (shown below). On November 9th, 2016, Yiannopoulos posted a photograph of himself standing with Viner Mike Ma making the hand gesture at Donald Trump's election night party following the 2016 United States presidential election.
