While Republicans have mocked her for the quote, many people who saw the humor in it have been responding with coconut and palm-tree emojis on her posts and reposting clips of her speech.

The specie in question here is the coconut tree from which we can obtain coconut water and coconut oil. The palm, physically and spiritually, is wealth. Every part of the palm tree – stem ...

What’s new: More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...

with social media users admitting they were “coconut-pilled”. Content creators made “fancam” edits of her speeches and dancing on TikTok, and palm tree emojis were suddenly everywhere.