Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a 2023 speech at the White House that has steadily gone viral. All about the "coconut tree" meme.

The clip where Harris' iconic "coconut tree" soundbite originated has since been remixed, memed and even used as inspiration for $5 "Piña Kamala Coconut Shots" at a bar in Washington, D.C.

Like all of us, the coconut tree moment exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Which is to say, it's part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris ...

The News-Press of Fort Myers in 1951 documented a 45-foot-high coconut tree on Highway 41 in Estero, “laden with ripening fruit the year ‘round,” where the coconuts grew too tall to pick.