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Victorian MP Tim Smith's X-Rated Donut Tweet Goes Viral

Victorian MP Tim Smith (above) was trolled over an awkward donut photo as his attempt to have a stab at Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews' COVID-19 response backfired spectacularly.
Victorian MP Tim Smith (above) was trolled over an awkward donut photo as his attempt to have a stab at Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews' COVID-19 response backfired spectacularly.

What was meant to be a sassy takedown of the government’s COVID-19 response in the Australian state of Victoria has turned into a countrywide roasting of conservative politician Tim Smith.

The Liberal MP was trolled most of Tuesday with the hashtag #donutdick, the number one trend on Twitter down under, for posting an unfortunate image of cinnamon donuts in what he thought resembled the number 800. That’s about the number of coronavirus-related deaths in Victoria.

But the phallic shape created by the donuts turned the people of Twitter a bit, er, nuts?

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It all started when Victoria finally recorded a day of zero new coronavirus cases and zero deaths after Australia’s viral epicentre had endured more than 12 weeks of hard lockdown while the rest of the country was mostly back to normal.

Victorians took to Twitter to celebrate zero cases and the easing of strict restrictions by posting pics of donuts. The donut is meant to represent ‘0’. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews got in on the fun Monday by posting his own donut Twit pic.

Then on Tuesday, Andrews celebrated a second consecutive day of zero cases by tweeting, “Today’s the first time we’ve recorded two zero days since the start of March.”

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