The 'Rubio Robot' meme originated during the February 6, 2016, Republican primary debate. Senator Marco Rubio faced heavy mockery after repeating a scripted talking point—'Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing'—four times in response to attacks from Governor Chris Christie. The moment was instantly branded as a 'glitch in the matrix,' portraying Rubio as an over-rehearsed and robotic candidate. Since then, the template has been used to mock anyone who sticks too strictly to a script or repeats the same point regardless of context, symbolizing a lack of authenticity and technical malfunctioning in political discourse.