Twitter mocks Sessions for referencing ‘Jewish AIPAC event’

Social media users on Tuesday turned Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s referencing “the Jewish AIPAC event” into a meme.

Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the panel’s probe into Russian election interference, Sessions mentioned being excited to attend a President Trump speech because the only time he’d heard him speak prior to that was “at the Jewish AIPAC event.”

{mosads}He was referencing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, an annual event held by one of the U.S.’s leading pro-Israel groups. Trump spoke at the 2016 conference.

Twitter users quickly seized on Sessions’s turn of phrase:

Sessions says he also saw Trump speak at "the Jewish AIPAC event"

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) June 13, 2017

The Jewish AIPAC event? That's the best kind.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 13, 2017

The Jewish AIPAC event, as opposed to the Christian one. #SessionsHearing

— Eric Lang (@ericclang) June 13, 2017

the Jewish AIPAC event #oy

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) June 13, 2017

“The Jewish AIPAC event”?? That’s a no-no. Doesn’t Sessions know he’s supposed to day “The pro-Israel AIPAC event"???

— Chemi Shalev (@ChemiShalev) June 13, 2017

"The Jewish AIPAC event — where the president spoke — to an audience of Jewish people — did I mention Ivanka is Jewish?"

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) June 13, 2017

AG Sessions won’t have won any friends with his description of the "Jewish AIPAC event”

It was a "which century are we in?” moment

— Paul Danahar (@pdanahar) June 13, 2017