# have a normal one
## English
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### Verb

have a normal one (third-person singular simple present has a normal one, present participle having a normal one, simple past and past participle had a normal one)
* (Internet slang, humorous, sarcastic) To have a public meltdown, especially on the Internet.
** 2018 December 16, Matthew Dessem, “Watch the Saturday Night Live Sketch That Enraged Donald Trump”, in Slate‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-23:President Donald Trump is having a normal one. On Sunday morning, he mused that perhaps the people behind Saturday Night Live should be sued or prosecuted, which, in fairness to Trump, is a thought most Americans have had at some point or another.
** [2019 October 2, Maddie Bender, “Scientists Edited Fruit Fly Genes to Give Them Butterflies' Toxic Abilities”, in VICE‎, archived from the original on 2023-05-09:Scientists, having a normal one, created mutant toxic fruit flies using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.]
** 2019 November 19, Ryan Bort, “Republicans Now Questioning Whether Purple Heart Recipient Is Loyal to the United States”, in Rolling Stone‎, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:The House GOP is having a normal one
** 2020 October 7, Heather Digby Parton, “Trump's incoherent COVID bluster is destroying him — but America continues to suffer”, in Salon.com‎, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-09:Sick or high or just having a normal one, it is perfectly understandable that Trump would be melting down in spectacular fashion. His only concern for the last four years has been getting re-elected for four more years, and that's not going well at all at the moment.
** 2022 January 27, William Vaillancourt, “GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill to Let Him and His Pals Overturn Elections”, in Rolling Stone‎, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:Arizona Rep. John Fillmore, pictured here having a normal one
** 2022 August 9, Sara Boboltz, “What To Know About The FBI's Surprise Raid On Trump's Mar-A-Lago Resort”, in HuffPost‎, archived from the original on 2023-06-09:How are Republicans taking all of this? ¶ They're having a normal one.
** 2023 July 7, Rich Stanton, “Elon Musk mocks 'the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram' as he sends Twitter's lawyers in on Threads”, in PC Gamer‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-15:Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, and Twitter owner Elon Musk is having an extremely normal one about it. Threads is top-to-bottom a Twitter copycat and is launching at a time when Twitter seems to be having a turbulent old time of it, thanks largely to Musk's fiddling ever since he took over. Now Musk's sending in the lawyers, and getting really quite petty about it.
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have,‎ a,‎ normal,‎ one.
** 2021 September 21, David Brusie, “Phoebe Bridgers stayed home and became a star. Now she's finally on tour”, in The Boston Globe‎, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2023:After a weird couple of years, Phoebe Bridgers is ready to have a normal one.