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| How do you do, fellow kids? Biden White House leaves followers baffled after tweeting out-of-touch meme with Canadian PM | How do you do, fellow kids? Biden White House leaves followers baffled after tweeting out-of-touch meme with Canadian PM |
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| The Biden administration has taken a popular meme and mutilated it, leaving what appears to be praise for Canada’s Justin Trudeau but which was hard to understand either way. | The Biden administration has taken a popular meme and mutilated it, leaving what appears to be praise for Canada’s Justin Trudeau but which was hard to understand either way. |
| Biden’s White House Twitter account posted two images in a row captioned “How it started. How it’s going” on Wednesday. The first showed Biden and Trudeau walking side by side down a hallway lined with flags, apparently from Biden's term as Vice President under Barack Obama. The second featured a large screen on which Trudeau was projected, with Biden turned towards it, seemingly in mid-speech, clearly taken during the pandemic. | Biden’s White House Twitter account posted two images in a row captioned “How it started. How it’s going” on Wednesday. The first showed Biden and Trudeau walking side by side down a hallway lined with flags, apparently from Biden's term as Vice President under Barack Obama. The second featured a large screen on which Trudeau was projected, with Biden turned towards it, seemingly in mid-speech, clearly taken during the pandemic. |
| It’s not clear what message Biden was trying to send with the meme, which - if interpreted in the typical way - suggests that Biden talking to the larger-than-life Trudeau represents a deterioration of relations. The meme began life as a way for people to sum up the arc of their romantic relationships, but shortly after its arrival became used almost exclusively in a sarcastic manner. | It’s not clear what message Biden was trying to send with the meme, which - if interpreted in the typical way - suggests that Biden talking to the larger-than-life Trudeau represents a deterioration of relations. The meme began life as a way for people to sum up the arc of their romantic relationships, but shortly after its arrival became used almost exclusively in a sarcastic manner. |
| Social media commenters were unsurprisingly confused, unsure what they were supposed to take away from the baffling meme. | Social media commenters were unsurprisingly confused, unsure what they were supposed to take away from the baffling meme. |
| Some opted to deliver what they felt was a more accurate assessment of the Biden presidency. | Some opted to deliver what they felt was a more accurate assessment of the Biden presidency. |
| Others had more pointed comments along the lines of what Biden should actually be doing beyond fluffing the Canadian PM. “You tweet a lot for someone that owes me $2,000,” one Twitter user reminded the US president | Others had more pointed comments along the lines of what Biden should actually be doing beyond fluffing the Canadian PM. “You tweet a lot for someone that owes me $2,000,” one Twitter user reminded the US president |
| Some Biden and Trudeau fans tried to squeeze something positive out of the inscrutable meme. | Some Biden and Trudeau fans tried to squeeze something positive out of the inscrutable meme. |
| Though even the Biden-loving media establishment couldn’t quite swallow the cringe. | Though even the Biden-loving media establishment couldn’t quite swallow the cringe. |
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