Social media users on Tuesday turned Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsRoy Moore sues Alabama over COVID-19 restrictions GOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs MORE’s referencing “the Jewish AIPAC event” into a meme.

Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the panel’s probe into Russian election interference, Sessions mentioned being excited to attend a President Trump speech because the only time he’d heard him speak prior to that was “at the Jewish AIPAC event.”

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He was referencing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, an annual event held by one of the U.S.’s leading pro-Israel groups. Trump spoke at the 2016 conference.



Twitter users quickly seized on Sessions’s turn of phrase:

Sessions says he also saw Trump speak at "the Jewish AIPAC event" — Rick Klein (@rickklein) June 13, 2017

The Jewish AIPAC event? That's the best kind. — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 13, 2017

The Jewish AIPAC event, as opposed to the Christian one. #SessionsHearing — Eric Lang (@ericclang) June 13, 2017

the Jewish AIPAC event #oy — Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) June 13, 2017

“The Jewish AIPAC event”?? That’s a no-no. Doesn’t Sessions know he’s supposed to day “The pro-Israel AIPAC event"??? — Chemi Shalev (@ChemiShalev) June 13, 2017

"The Jewish AIPAC event -- where the president spoke -- to an audience of Jewish people -- did I mention Ivanka is Jewish?" — Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) June 13, 2017