Joe Biden embraced the “Dark Brandon” meme for a video released on the day President Donald Trump was arraigned on charges related to Jan 6.
“A cup of Joe never tasted better,” Joe Biden’s Twitter (X) account stated on Thursday, accompanied by a video of him drinking a cup of coffee from a mug bearing the “Dark Brandon” meme wedged between 2024.
“I like my coffee dark,” Biden says in the video.
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The reaction to the video on Twitter was brutal:
The “Dark Brandon” meme initially originated during the 2022 mid-term election during a divisive speech where Biden characterized MAGA Republicans as a dark threat to American democracy.
“MAGA Republicans do not respect the constitution,” he said.
“They do not believe in the rule of law; they do not believe in the rule of law; they do not recognize the will of the people.”
“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backward,” he added.
“Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose. No right to privacy. No right to contraception. You have no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence.”
Alex Woodward of the Independent wrote said that the ‘Dark Brandon’ memes transformed the president from a grandfatherly figure into something darker and aggressive.
“The image of Dark Brandon not only reclaims the ‘Brandon’ label but subverts the explicitly fascist ‘Dark MAGA’ aesthetic, giving liberals who otherwise have been on the receiving end of a years-long meme war the ammunition to participate,” Woodward wrote.
“With Dark Brandon, the 78-year-old Biden undergoes an ironic transformation as a bearded, eyepatch-wearing Metal Gear Solid figure or laser-eyed anime character,” he added.
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