President Joe Biden had conspiracy theorists in a tizzy after posting what appeared to be his reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win on Sunday night.

ā€œJust like we drew it up,ā€ Biden posted on X alongside a photo of ā€œDark Brandon,ā€ the meme created by hardcoreā€”and very onlineā€”supporters of Donald Trump that Biden and his team loved so much they adopted it as their own.

The post was apparently referencing far-right conspiracy theories which posit the NFL and high-level government operatives conspired to rig the Super Bowl in Kansas Cityā€™s favor to give maximum exposure to a yet-to-be-announced endorsement from Chiefs star Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift.

  • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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    -4ā€¢8 months ago

    I mean, you really think that the 81 year old president of the united states, is terminally online enough to know about a niche meme, related to him, called ā€œshadow brandonā€, and is also terminally online enough to want to turn around and post it on twitter?

    • M137
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      0ā€¢8 months ago

      Ah yes, he has to be ā€œterminally onlineā€ to be aware of a hugely popular meme about him.

      Youā€™re also missing the whole deal of him talking about and mentioning this meme several times and he and his PR team having made their own jokes for it for a couple of years now. All of this has been extremely hard to miss. I donā€™t interact much with US politics any more than what pops up here on Lemmy and the biggest things that get worldwide reporting and Iā€™ve seen this several times.