'Centipede' is a term used in The_Donald subreddit by Donald Trump supporters to refer favorably to themselves. The term is unrelated to the Human Centipede from Cartoon Network's Southpark television show.
Instead, the term 'centipede' comes from Volume 4 of a YouTube series called "You Can't Stump the Trump".
The video begins with the audio track of a nature documentary describing the centipede as a 'nimble navigator' with two curved fangs that can inject venom into its prey. The video consists of Donald Trump comebacks, put-downs, and similar comments made during debates and speeches, interspersed with old memes (you try to describe it). Few paid attention until Trump re-tweeted the video.
At that point, Reddit paid attention. Trump became a centipede to his Reddit supporters, who also called themselves centipedes, able to nimbly navigate and inject venom into their prey.
The centipede theme continued in many of the following volumes of You Can't Stump the Trump.
I wasn't there, but I find the history of inside jokes and repetitive phrases on Reddit interesting.
Thanks for the background. Even if you don’t know the exact meaning of certain terms, you can still, via the context, figure it out generally. I was enjoying the threads a lot (funny, funny bunch), but now I’ll REALLY enjoy them since I’ll have a more precise idea of what various terms/phrases mean. :-)
interesting... also the human centipede was a movie/sequel, i didn’t know the boys did an episode too, i’ll have to look for it
I found the information on Reddit, Trump, and Centipede by an internet search using those words and perhaps a couple of others. You can search for something found on Reddit with a little digging. I found the Reddit post from the search, which contained a link to the video.