The Funniest Tweets about Boris Johnson Becoming the UK’s New Prime Minister

Let’s try something out here. We don’t typically run these tweet galleries about foreign politics (except for that one about the Brexit vote that I put together at like 2 in the morning while at a theme park press event). Boris Johnson is such a thoroughly ridiculous human being, though, that it’s hard not to make fun of him. Even Americans are having a hard time not mocking the guy. Of course most of that mockery rises exactly to the level of “look at this dude’s hair” and no further, but hey, it’s still possible to make quality jokes at the expense of the terrible fashion sense of society-disrupting upper class twits.

With Boris Johnson becoming the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom earlier today, Twitter was full of good jokes about the goof. Here are our favorites. You can also just reread any of your favorite old anti-Trump tweets—just swap out his name for Johnson’s and read it in a fancy British accent.

For any Americans wondering who Boris Johnson is, he’s what would happen if you threw Donald Trump, a hay bale and a thesaurus into a washing machine and then it caught fire.

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) July 23, 2019

hard to say something really cutting about Boris Johnson when he just… looks like that. There is no insight funnier or more tragic than his literal presence.

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) July 23, 2019

Boris Johnson looks like a British comedian you’ve never heard of, but then suddenly has eight Netflix specials and roles in every Dreamworks film pic.twitter.com/0CieLvDM0a

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) July 23, 2019

Boris Johnson has that final-scene-from-Sleepaway-Camp look nailed pic.twitter.com/aH5j0uQErh

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 23, 2019

Boris Johnson looks like a medieval turnip cart driver

— Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) July 23, 2019

Congratulations to Boris Johnson for finally giving me a clear and concise understanding of exactly what British people mean when they say “wanker”.

— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) July 23, 2019

Boris Johnson though? It’s like England watched America for the last almost three years and said “hold my pint…”

— Travon Free (@Travon) July 23, 2019

Boris Johnson looks like he has never been on time to a single thing in his life. pic.twitter.com/Y7LbtUkR4w

— Dumb Idiot Riley Fox (@riley_fox) July 23, 2019

It’s absolutely killing me that people are describing Boris Johnson as a “smarter Trump”, lest I remind you that Trump’s cognitive strength was measured by his ability to identify a drawing of a lion, camel, and rhinoceros.

— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) July 23, 2019