Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Campaign 2016

How is the 2016 election different from all others? For one, it has gotten “mazel tov” to trend on Twitter.

The reason: Critiquing rapper Jay Z on CNN Sunday night, Donald Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes alleged that one of his videos started off “with a crowd throwing mazel tov cocktails.” The phrase is, obviously, Molotov cocktails, a combustible mixture of rags, gasoline and glass bottle common in street protests, as host Don Lemon pointed out a few moments later.

Twitter took notice. “Mazel tov,” a Jewish expression of congratulations or good luck, has been tweeted about almost 18,000 times since late Sunday, and was averaging more than 4,000 tweets per hour on Monday afternoon.