On Thursday, Feb. 8, former Michigan Representative John D. Dingell Jr. died at the age 92. Many will remember him as the longest-serving Congress member in U.S. history and an expert legislative negotiator.

However, we would be lying if we didn’t at least take a moment to appreciate Dingell’s social media prowess and his mastery of the Twitter clapback. So with that, we give you the greatest hits of John Dingell’s colorful Twitter legacy.

On Trump’s plan for a wall at the southern border…
On former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker…
On the cult-classic film ‘Sharknado’…
On New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
On Pluto…
On Trump’s teeny-tiny hands…
On 140 characters…
On ‘Make Mars Great Again’…
On Texas…
On the philosophy of YOLO…
On Jeopardy…
On Mitt Romney…
On the Detroit Lions…
On Neil deGrasse Tyson…
On Hillary…
On the 2016 election…
On the Kardashians…
On being thankful…
On being old…
On Nazis…
And the final goodbye…

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