# Thank You Kanye, Very Cool! Thank You Kanye, Very Cool! refers to a five-word tweet Donald Trump sent to Kanye West on April 25th, 2018, after West called the president his "brother" with "dragon energy." The oddly flat reply from a sitting head of state became a copypasta and photoshop template within a day, spawning Bee Movie edits, Infinity War crossovers and stick-figure fan art across Reddit and Twitter. ## Origin On April 25th, 2018, Kanye West tweeted at Donald Trump calling him his "brother" and describing their shared "dragon energy," pulling in roughly 297,000 likes and 76,500 retweets within a day[6]. Later that same day, Trump replied from @realDonaldTrump with only "Thank you Kanye, very cool!" The reply itself picked up more than 321,800 likes and 99,800 retweets in twenty-four hours[1]. The meme format followed almost immediately. On April 26th, 2018, Redditor garrett0803 posted a photoshopped version of the exchange to /r/me_irl in which West's tweet was replaced by a crude stick-figure drawing of Kanye and Trump holding hands[2]. - **Platform:** Twitter (source tweet) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Donald Trump (source tweet); Reddit user garrett0803 (earliest known photoshop) - **Date:** 2018 ## Overview Thank You Kanye, Very Cool! is a five-word reply Donald Trump tweeted to Kanye West on April 25th, 2018, thanking the rapper for a post that called Trump his "brother" and described the pair as sharing "dragon energy"[1]. The flatness of the response, the kind of thing a distant uncle might reply to a birthday text, clashed hard with the intensity of West's original message, which is most of the joke. Online, the phrase mostly lives as a photoshop template. Editors keep the layout of the West-Trump exchange intact and swap West's tweet for something absurd (a stick-figure drawing, a Bee Movie announcement, a Marvel crossover) while leaving Trump's "Thank you Kanye, very cool!" reply untouched underneath[2][5]. The reply's blandness works as a punchline no matter what nonsense sits above it. ## How to Use The template typically keeps Trump's actual "Thank you Kanye, very cool!" reply as the bottom half and swaps West's tweet on top for anything jarring, wholesome, obscene, or nonsensical. Common edits replace West's message with a fake Bee Movie announcement, a Marvel crossover pitch, or a hand-drawn illustration, letting Trump's flat thanks read as an absurd response to whatever was pasted in[2][5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Thank You Kanye, Very Cool!? It's a five-word tweet Donald Trump sent to Kanye West on April 25th, 2018, that got turned into a photoshop template swapping West's original tweet for absurd content while keeping Trump's flat reply[1]. ### Where did Thank You Kanye, Very Cool! come from? The reply came from @realDonaldTrump on Twitter on April 25th, 2018, after West called Trump his "brother" with "dragon energy"[1]. Reddit user garrett0803 posted the earliest known photoshop of the exchange to /r/me_irl the next day[2]. ### What does Thank You Kanye, Very Cool! mean? The line itself is just Trump's polite acknowledgement, but as a meme it works because the reply is jarringly bland next to whatever ridiculous edit sits above it in the screenshot, like a Bee Movie announcement or a Marvel crossover[5][7]. ### How do you use Thank You Kanye, Very Cool!? Take a screenshot of the West-Trump exchange, keep Trump's "Thank you Kanye, very cool!" reply intact, and replace West's tweet with something absurd, as in the stick-figure edit posted to /r/me_irl or the Bee Movie edit that hit /r/MemeEconomy[2][5]. ### Is Thank You Kanye, Very Cool! still popular? The template peaked with the late-April 2018 Reddit wave across /r/me_irl, /r/dankmemes, /r/MemeEconomy and /r/The_Donald, and is best treated as a classic Trump-era Twitter meme from that moment rather than an active format[3][7]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/989225812166696960]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/8eyumx/me_irl/]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/8ezsy5/dragon_energy/]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8ewjtv/most_ambitious/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/8f0zbr/kanye_2024/]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thank-you-kanye-very-cool]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/thank-you-kanye-very-cool Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library