Washington: The user whose screen name is an unprintable corruption of "Han Solo" spent about a year on Reddit before attaining stardom, courtesy of a share from US President Donald Trump.

Some of the user's posts were unpopular. "That cat would be in a blender if it did that to me," for instance. Or recollections of visits to Paris armed with "punch blades", in case a Muslim needed to be stabbed in the neck.

The user found more success posting on r/The_Donald, an extremely popular Reddit subgroup specialising in the idolisation of Trump and the denigration of his imagined enemies - often through the most offensive means possible.

Thus Han‑‑‑Solo's offering on Wednesday: A GIF of Trump pummelling Vince McMahon at a long-ago WrestleMania, with a CNN logo superimposed over McMahon's face.