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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign unveiled Saturday a modified version of its Trump-Pence logo after the original graphic drew a lot of unintended attention.

During Trump’s official introduction of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, the campaign adorned a fundraising email with a simple “TRUMP” atop a “PENCE,” ditching an American flag-inspired interlocking T and P logo that attracted the attention of Trump critics and supporters alike.

The campaign shared the original graphic in an email soon after making public Trump’s choice Friday in a series of social media posts, emails and text messages. In the original insignia, the “T” in Trump passes through the “P” in Pence as part of a flag illustration. Their names were stacked below on top of Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

A message left with the Trump campaign Saturday was not immediately returned.

Former Michigan Rep. John Dingell, a Democrat with a famously wry Twitter account, offered one of the first of many puzzled reviews.

“What is the T doing to that P?” he asked.

Florida congressman and Senate candidate Alan Grayson, a Democrat, volunteered an off-color suggestion.

“This logo accurately represents what Trump Pence will do to America,” he tweeted.

And Bloomberg’s Matt Negrin did his best to make the logo “safe for TV.”

For the many NSFW takes on Trump and Pence’s branding, simply search Twitter.

Trump’s is not the first logo to become an online punchline. Jeb Bush’s “Jeb!” logo was widely ridiculed.

While presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s logo has been praised by many designers, it prompted intra-party grousing last year. It features an “H” with an arrow pointing right, leading some Democrats to complain that the arrow did not point left.

Asked what a good logo should do, Nancy Skolos, dean of architecture and design at the Rhode Island School of Design, said it should be memorable. Cyrus Highsmith, an internationally celebrated designer, said it should be recognizable quickly and not offensive, then hastened to add that he wasn’t offended by the Trump logo.

“I think it’s funny,” he said. “Maybe that’s another thing: Put it in enough focus groups to make sure you’re not going to get laughed at.”

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