What Is the Coconut Tree Meme That's All Over Social Media?

On Sunday, President Joe Biden dropped out of nan 2024 statesmanlike title and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who said she intends to "earn and win" nan Democratic nomination.

Three hours later, Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted 3 emojis to societal media, a coconut, a thenar tree, and an American flag, arsenic symbols of support for Harris. Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz posted a image of him climbing a coconut tree. Democratic governmental action committee EMILYs List added nan coconut and thenar character emojis to its societal media name. And nan Kamala Harris coconut character piña colada made an quality astatine D.C. bars.

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How did nan coconut character go Harris's emblem? The meme stems from a reside Harris gave connected May 10, 2023, astatine a swearing-in ceremonial of commissioners for nan President's Advisory Commission connected Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.

Harris talked astir nan value of knowing discourse and illustrated nan constituent pinch thing her mother utilized to say.

"My mother utilized to — she would springiness america a difficult clip sometimes, and she would opportunity to us, 'I don't cognize what's incorrect pinch you young people. You deliberation you conscionable fell retired of a coconut tree?'" Harris said. "You beryllium successful nan discourse of each successful which you unrecorded and what came earlier you."

The video has since made nan rounds connected societal media but has circulated much successful nan past day. In remixed sound bites, which person tens of thousands of likes connected TikTok, Harris's sound overlaps pinch hits from Taylor Swift and Beyonce.

@merjudd one cant extremity listening to this sound #kamala #kamalaharris #kamalaharris2024 #biden #taylorswift #taylorsversion #lookwhatyoumademedo #reputation #reputationtaylorsversion #reputationtv ♬ original sound - Evan

@ranvision_official #kamalaharris #youthinkyoujustfelloutofacoconuttree #remix #floptok #floptok??????? #potaxies??? #potaxiesdecorazon??? ♬ original sound - Ranvision 軟趴皮

Though Harris supporters look to beryllium embracing nan coconut character symbol, and nan memes and TikToks that travel pinch it, nan word "coconut" is simply a arguable one. Cybersecurity lawyer Isvari Maranwe pointed retired successful a Sunday TikTok that nan word has been utilized successful a racially charged measurement against Indian Americans.

Creating a meme retired of Harris's words could also, ironically, sap those words of discourse extracurricular of an abbreviated audio aliases video clip.

Though Harris has not commented connected nan meme, her charismatic statesmanlike run page connected X references it. The page bio simply reads: "Providing context."

Kamala Harris. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump has already weighed successful connected nan anticipation of moving against Harris alternatively of Biden, telling CBS News connected Sunday that he doesn't deliberation it changes nan race.

"I deliberation she is nary amended than him," Trump told CBS. "She could beryllium acold little competent, which is difficult to believe."

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