Rudy Giuliani's Mugshot

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Rudy Giuliani's Mugshot refers to the picture taken of Rudy Giuliani by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office after his arrest in Donald Trump's Georgia Indictment in late August 2023. The picture led to myriad jokes and memes online in the immediate aftermath of its posting.

Origin

On August 23rd, 2023, the Fulton County Sheriff's Office released a mugshot of Rudy Giuliani^[1] after his indictment in Donald Trump's Georgia case in which he was named as an alleged conspirator unlawfully aiding Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 United States Presidential Election result in the state (shown below).

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The image quickly inspired jokes that spread widely on Twitter and other social media platforms. Some prominent early jokes include an August 23rd, 2023, post by Twitter user @zedonarrival^[2] that quipped the mugshot had "T-shirt design printing machines currently overheating across all five boroughs," gaining over 3,400 retweets and 43,000 likes in one day (shown below, left).

The same day, user @schweitz_ay^[3] ironically quipped that the picture was Giuliani's 9/11, gaining over 30 retweets and 320 likes in one day (shown below, right).

Others made humorous edits to the mugshot. For example, on August 23rd, Twitter user @IAmHappyToast^[4] posted an edit of Giuliani to make him look like the Batman villain The Penguin, gaining over 320 retweets and 1,600 likes in one day (shown below, left).

The same day, on Bluesky, user Darth^[5] made a similar edit, photoshopping the Arkham Asylum logo behind Giuliani in place of the Fulton County Sheriff's Office logo, gaining over 30 reskeets and 340 likes in one day (shown below, right).

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