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.

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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.