Gun laws, race-relations and jobs may have dominated the first Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton Presidential debate, but at the end of the day what got America sit up was the way the Republican candidate was sniffling away, so much so that as soon as the event was over the sniffle got even its own twitter handle.
@TrumpSniff counts its followers only in the thousands an hour after the debate but chances are that the sniffles could dominate the electoral chatter in the coming days.
Initial reactions mostly bordered on the comical but at least one major face from the US political landscape ended up dropping the C-word often associated with sniffing. "Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?" tweeted Howard Dean, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the US Presidential Election, 2004.
The more politically correct among the initial commentators compared Trump's loud sniffling in the opening minutes of the debate to former Vice-President Al Gore’s sighing from the 2000 presidential debate.
The hashtag #Trump Sniff too trended on Twitter although as the discussion ended the comments on social media seemed to veer towards the larger question of health of the two candidates. During the debate Trump had even questioned the stamina of Clinton to be a US President, and she replied in kind.
Clinton's recent bout of pneumonia had brought the health issue into the centre of debate and Trump had said he would release his medical documents with "very, very specific numbers".
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