Country on edge waiting for vote count as Trump’s ‘very strange’ remarks get memed

After a night of hitting “refresh” and anxiously watching vote reporting on TV — state by state and county by county — Americans waited for election results for a second day on social media.

Even with many knowing full well a winner would likely not be in hand within hours of polls closing, some pulled all nighters.

Voters compared the experiencing of waiting for the decisive moment to other fraught experiences.

“Today feels like the whole country is waiting for an STD test result,” tweeted rapper and actor Ice-T, who lives in Edgewater.

To @clur_dicucc, waiting for a winner of the presidential election was like hovering around an oven in “The Great British Bake Off.”

For Georgia’s Adam Smith, it was like looking for lost luggage at the airport, bleary-eyed after a long flight.

Writer R. Eric Thomas compared the special agony of vote limbo to “Receiving a ‘we have to talk’ text” followed by those ellipses that indicate someone is typing “for, like, 36 to 72 hours.”

“Feels like the whole country is on Maury waiting to find out who’s the father,” tweeted Tay Anderson, a school board director in Denver.

Voters and celebrity voters alike backed the process with the hashtag #CountEveryVote.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, who had given an election night address in which he falsely claimed victory said he didn’t want some votes to be counted, racked up another Twitter misinformation disclaimer for one of his tweets.

Here’s the disclaimer, which has been applied to some of his other posts:

“Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”

“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled,” Trump said in the problematic tweet. “Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the ‘pollsters’ got it completely & historically wrong!”

Trump labeling the usual vote count as some kind of “surprise” inspired tweets that riffed on his “VERY STRANGE” remark.

“Last night the sky was dark,” tweeted “The Daily Show,” referring to nothing more than the simple concept of night. “Then, from East to West, those cities magically became light again. VERY STRANGE.

“Last night I had an entire pizza in front of me,” comedy writer Jeremy Newberger tweeted. “Then one by one, the slices started to magically disappear as the night went along. VERY STRANGE, and now this morning there is no sign of it.”

Day turning into night … food vanishing down someone’s throat. It was almost as “mysterious” as a candidate falling behind when ballots are cast for his opponent.

Or as “magical” as a sports team faltering and losing a game, changing the score.

“In Super Bowl LI, the Falcons were leading the Patriots 28-9 at the end of the third quarter, then something VERY STRANGE happened….” tweeted Mother Jones bureau chief David Corn.

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