(The phrase “blow job queen” was one of the more polite epithets tossed around.) But it wasn’t exactly clear how reliable all of this was the detail came from a much-debated biography from the early ’90s, for one thing. Twitter users took it from there, with maximum vulgar glee.
You can read a thorough explanation of what happened here, but the long and short of it is that the former first lady became a trending topic on Twitter after an old anecdote concerning her skill at fellatio during her Hollywood days resurfaced. One of the stranger news stories, if you can call it that, of the last week was the very public dredging up of Nancy Reagan’s sexual history via a winding path that involved both conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s sister and pop legend Madonna.