Roofing memes are generally only shared within various roofing groups on Reddit, Facebook and other roofing-related social platforms. This past week roofing-related memes featuring “sloped roofs” have gone viral globally after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. Some may wonder what the sloped roofing meme means.
Many individuals have questioned how the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to access a nearby roof and have time to fire several shots off, while numerous government agencies including the Secret Service were on-site offering security during the event. Some are questioning why this nearby building was not monitored. These criticisms were exacerbated by comments made by U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, especially her comments regarding “sloped roofs” and that they would not want to put anyone on a sloped roof for safety reasons.
“So there’s a number of factors that come into play on how we secure buildings, both in our perimeter and out of our perimeter,” she said.
“At that site itself, there were actually a number of buildings in the outer perimeter. I know that we’re all focused on this one particular building because of what took place there. But there are a number of buildings in that outlying area,” Cheatle explained.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point. And so, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside,” she said.
Some of the Sloped Roof memes feature the image of the shooter on a “sloped roof” along with an image of Secret Service snipers also on a sloped roof, indicating that Cheatle’s comments about safety concerns for the Secret Service agents don’t seem genuine. The pitch of the roofs pictured in the memes is minor, and many feel shouldn’t have been a valid reason to avoid placing additional security there.
Other memes mock the Secret Service’s supposed fear of sloped roofs.
