Make American Great Again — aka MAGA — has taken over again after last Tuesday’s presidential election.
But there’s a new, disturbing “MATGA” movement now cropping up that involved poison — and coincidently, Donald Trump.
A disturbing, viral series of videos are spreading across social media portraying lacing men’s beverages with deadly poison as a justifiable response to fears about abortion rights under a second Donald Trump presidency.
Many of the videos have been viewed millions of times on X or TikTok and feature young women grinning as they adulterate a cup of tea or other drink with an unknown substance.
Some of the women have dubbed the videos part of a “Make Aqua Tofana Great Again” (“MATGA”) movement, a nod both to President-elect Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), and ancient killer Giulia Tofana, who has been adopted as the group’s heroine.
HOLY SH*T, Karens lost their fvcking minds over Trump’s win and launched MATGA—short for Make Aqua Tofana Great Again.
Aqua Tofana was a powerful poison in 17th-century Sicily, sold by women to other women seeking to escape abusive relationships by discreetly poisoning their… pic.twitter.com/KvHK8ZXWz4
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) November 10, 2024
Tofana was a 17th-century Italian woman who sold poison to wives who wished to dispatch their abusive husbands — resulting in the deaths of more than 600 men.
Tofana’s signature brew was a mishmash of deadly ingredients such as arsenic and belladonna known as “Aqua Tofana,” a concoction that was so effective, she is considered by many today one of the most prolific serial killers of all time.
The poison — believed to be flavorless and completely undetectable after death — was typically stored in ordinary cosmetics bottles, ensuring that a husband who was about to get poisoned would not suspect anything.
One of the online clips shows a young lady with green hair, a backwards camo hat and a large, spiked septum ring with the text “Aqua Tofana isn’t that hard to make” superimposed over footage of her making the throat-slitting gesture with her thumb.
However, in a more common sense move, a woman posted a TikTok video urging people participating in “MATGA” to think long and hard about what they were doing.
“You do know those videos can be used against you, right? It’s giving off premeditated vibes. The internet is FOREVER. Also.. the 1600s were A LOT different than 2024 advancements in detecting POISON,” reads the text positioned over a video of her scrunching her face in disbelief.