The Donald Trump Jr. Email Tweet meme stems from July 2017 when the President's son took the unprecedented step of posting screenshots of an email chain to Twitter. The emails detailed a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, a move intended to preempt a New York Times report. The internet immediately seized upon the irony of self-incrimination, turning the screenshots into a symbol of the 'self-own.' Today, the template is used to mock people who voluntarily provide evidence of their own questionable behavior or to parody political scandals where the 'smoking gun' is handed over willingly by the subject themselves.