Politics
White House Joins Far-Left Social Media Platform, Immediately Trolls Users
The White House on Friday opened an account on the far-left X clone Bluesky and immediately trolled the site’s overwhelmingly left-wing user base with a hilarious video.
Bluesky originated as an internal research project at Twitter in December 2019, initiated by then-CEO Jack Dorsey to explore decentralized social networking. A text-based platform, the site functions much like Elon Musk’s X and became popular among the political left starting last year when it was marketed as an alternative to Musk’s site.
Similar to Twitter/X offshoots like Parler, Gab, Gettr and others, all of which were launched during the height of left-wing censorship at Twitter and were popular with conservatives, Bluesky is almost entirely populated by leftists. It has garnered a reputation for allowing extremism to thrive, particularly in the wake of the assassination of prominent political activist Charlie Kirk.
On Friday, the White House invaded the left-wing echo chamber with a video statement aimed at riling up its user base.
The video functions as a campaign video for the White House, with triumphant footage of the president meeting with world leaders overseas following the historic peace deal in the Israel-Gaza conflict. “My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over. In fact, our fight has only just begun. We are one movement, one people, one family, a glorious nation under God,” Trump says over the montage.
It goes on to list a number of the administration’s accomplishments, including the signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which codified a number of the president’s most important campaign promises. The video also references issues that have gotten under the left’s skin, such as changing “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf Of America,” followed by the words “Daddy’s Home.”
The trolling ratchets up towards the end of the video, with sombrero memes that have become popular during the shutdown dispute, a meme of Border Czar Tom Homan photoshopped on a sun rising over a border wall, and several additional Trump-related memes, all while Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit In The Sky” plays in the background.
Senior administration officials and other leading Republicans have had fun with trolling Bluesky in the past. Vice President JD Vance joined the platform back in June and was almost immediately banned following what the platform blamed on a “mistake.”
“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you,” Vance said in his post on June 18. He then shared a quote from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on a solo concurring opinion earlier that month, which upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries for minors.
“To that end, I found Justice Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” Vance said. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?”
Bluesky came under intense scrutiny last month when the site erupted into a celebratory atmosphere following the murder of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The site stated that it would be cracking down on violent rhetoric and updating its moderation policies, though critics have argued that the site has become a breeding ground for left-wing extremism.
