In a tone-deaf Easter weekend post, the party’s official X account tried to serve up some warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia. Instead, it triggered a backlash over what many are calling a glaring and telling omission: President Joe Biden.
The now-viral post featured former President Barack Obama, seen from behind, strolling alongside a person in an Easter Bunny costume with the Washington Monument looming in the background. The caption? A wistful: “Better times at the White House.”
Better times — according to whom?
Because nowhere in the image, caption, or even a passing mention was Biden included. That didn’t go unnoticed.
Social media users immediately pounced, questioning why Democrats appeared to skip over their own sitting president in favor of a throwback to the Obama era.
“Why are y’all skipping over Biden?” Christian influencer Renatta Oxendine fired back — a question that quickly echoed across the platform.
The message wasn’t subtle. It looked like Democrats were openly longing for the past while quietly sidestepping the present.
Fox News Digital columnist David Marcus didn’t mince words, calling the post a “brutal smack down of Joe Biden.”
And if this feels familiar, that’s because it is. The Easter misstep comes on the heels of another eyebrow-raising moment out of California, where Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office stirred controversy with a post urging followers to repost “if you miss having a President with a functioning brain,” paired — once again — with an image of Obama.
Notice a pattern?
Biden was nowhere to be found there, either. Critics were quick to connect the dots. Conservative podcaster Stephen L. Miller summed it up bluntly: “They skipped someone.”
Even Republicans couldn’t resist jumping in. The GOP’s official account resurfaced an old post from Newsom’s team that read, “Happy birthday, President @JoeBiden! We miss having a president who has physical stamina — and a functioning brain.”
The GOP jabbed back with a biting reminder: “We know you ‘can’t read’ but remember posting this?”
Ouch.
After the backlash, Newsom’s office scrambled to clean things up, issuing a follow-up post praising Biden’s “empathy.” But by then, the damage was done — and the internet doesn’t forget.
Meanwhile, the political stakes couldn’t be higher. As the social media drama unfolded, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments in a major case tied to birthright citizenship — a serious constitutional battle over the 14th Amendment and the future of automatic citizenship in America.
Yet while the country wrestles with foundational legal questions, Democrats are busy explaining why their own president didn’t make the Easter card.
