Biden’s Decision to Join TikTok Has Proved Disastrous Within a Matter of Days

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If President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign joined TikTok as part of a desperate strategy to appeal to the youth, it might want to rethink that strategy now.

The president’s campaign started posting on the Chinese-owned social media app this week despite the fact that Biden signed legislation in December 2022 banning federal workers from downloading and using TikTok on government devices.

As NBC News noted on Thursday, after the campaign was criticized for joining the platform — a move it had indicated it wouldn’t make — its TikTok posts are being flooded with hostile comments.

Biden’s posts have been subject to Gen Z’s digital wrath about his policies and his ability to perform his duties.

In addition to trashing the pure cringe that is the TikTok account of an out-of-touch 81-year-old man, users are taking full advantage of the opportunity to rant about the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

Under Biden’s first post — a video with the awkward title of “lol hey guys” wherein he plays a game of “Would You Rather?” — there are angry comments from pro-Palestinian posters interspersed with jokes about his cognitive abilities (“8 hrs edited down to 30 seconds” and “had to wake him up for this one”).

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