People spot moment Trump seemingly alludes to viral '6, 7' meme as true meaning is explained
Topics: News, US News, Donald Trump
Kit Roberts
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Topics: News, US News, Donald Trump
People are convinced they've pinpointed the moment Donald Trump casually referenced the viral 'six seven' meme which has become every school teacher's worst nightmare.
The US president spoke with reporters during an Air Force One flight, with the camera shaking as the plane went through some severe turbulence on its journey.
Trump paid a visit to the press section on the plane, taking a moment to joke with reporters about the turbulence.
"They're gonna be watching the interviews they're gonna be saying he doesn't look too good he's got the shakes," he said.
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The president then alluded to discussions around the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying he was working to resolve the conflict.
In this section, Trump said: "I don't like to see six, seven, eight thousand young people, mostly young people, for the most part soldiers, be killed."
He added: "We're gonna work together to try and get the war with Russia and Ukraine solved."
But of course this being the internet some people cottoned on to the fact that Trump had said the words 'six seven' while talking about the thousands of people being killed in a war as an allusion to the bizarre meme which includes those two numbers.
One commenter wrote: "Did my president just make a 6 - 7 reference. Barron is teaching him well."
A second said: "Spotted that as well! And just after, he referred to young people."
A third simply said: "He knows."
It was a moment many saw coming, with one person writing on X (formerly Twitter): "I don't think we've reached peak 6 7 yet. I think Trump will say 6 7 in a speech in the next year."
The 'six seven' meme has gone viral on social media, in classrooms, and round family dinner tables where it continues to be met with confusion and bemusement.
Such is the frustrating impact of 'six-seven' that embattled teachers have even taken to banning the term from classrooms.
Newspapers and online publishers have even published article after article trying to get to the bottom of the latest weird thing the kids are doing along with skibidi toilet.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are just left scratching our heads about what it even means when someone shouts 'six seven' while doing an accompanying hand gesture.
As for that particular question - it turns out that 'six-seven', often written just as '6 7' doesn't actually really mean anything at all, it's just something that people say to one another whenever it comes up.
TikTok creator Mr. Lindsay, who calls himself the app's 'OG Student Translator', tried to get to the bottom of it.
It turns out that the meme appears to originate with the hip-hop artist Skrilla in the track 'Doot Doot', released in December 2024, where he says: "6-7, I just bipped right on the highway (bip, bip).”
It then entered a new phase in a joke about NBA star LaMelo Ball, who plays like he's six feet two, despite being '6 7'.
“This meme goes viral,” Mr. Lindsay said. “Everybody is making edits, everybody is saying ‘six, seven,’ all of these content creators are starting to put ‘six, seven’ into all of their things.”
As for how long the trend might last, well adults are now talking about it, so that means it's probably already dead.