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Someone Should Do It and Somebody Has to Do It are catchphrases used online as dog whistles to indirectly suggest that somebody needs to kill or assassinate a powerful person, which are commonly aimed at United States President Donald Trump , Elon Musk and other powerful people in American politics and business who are perceived by many to have negative impacts on the world or are widely disliked. Variations of the phrase were first used in this context on sites like TikTok and X / Twitter as early as January 2025, with a video by TikToker @theotherotherdarius helping popularize and spread the phrase after it was reposted by the Libs of TikTok page and boosted by Musk.

The phrase continued to be prevalent online throughout 2025 and 2026, inspiring discourse .…