Joe Biden’s campaign team was caught making an embarrassing mistake in an attack on Donald Trump for his dismissal of the NFL as “boring” with its social media post showing the president holding an Australian football.
The Threads post was timed to coincide with Thursday night’s NFL draft and featured clips of Trump calling football “very boring” and saying “nobody cares” about the country’s most popular sport.
Those images are contrasted with a series of photos of Biden welcoming the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs to the White House, receiving a ball with his name from the Air Force team and, finally, posing with a ball red football in his hands.
The attack ends with the words: “Make the right choice in November.”
The Biden Harris campaign post contrasts the view of Trump attacking the NFL with images of the president meeting with the Super Bowl champion Kansas Chiefs (pictured).
However, it also ends with the shot above of Biden holding an Australian soccer ball, which looks nothing like the pigskin used in the American game.
The ball in the last image is used in Australian rules football and the photo was taken when the commander-in-chief watched a match in Australia in July 2016, when he was still vice president.
The footballs used in the sport’s premier competition, the Australian Football League (AFL), look nothing like those found in the NFL.
In addition to the completely different color, they are noticeably larger and have rounded ends, unlike the pointed shape of American balls.
Trump has been an outspoken critic of the state of the NFL, and the post appears to refer to comments he made at a campaign rally in Nevada in September 2020, the first Sunday of that football season.
“Football is very boring. It’s just not the same, right? he told the crowd in Henderson, saying that while Americans used to ask that events not be scheduled while the game was on, now they “say, ‘Is it possible to do it during a football game?'”
Trump has long been a critic of the NFL, lashing out at issues such as players kneeling during the national anthem (pictured).
The 45th president (pictured with NFL stars Joe Burrow, center, and Nick Bosa, right, at a recent UFC event) has been criticizing the league since the 1980s.
The attack also references what Trump said at a rally in Carson City that same year, when he told his supporters, “Nobody cares about football.” They should become smart because they can’t win this war. We want people who love our country.’
Trump criticized the league for players kneeling during the national anthem and called for stars who take the protest to be fired or suspended.
His criticism of the NFL dates back to the 1980s, when he owned the New Jersey Generals team in the breakaway USFL. He also tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014.
Biden’s visit to the Carlton Blues-West Coast Eagles game came during a whirlwind visit to Australia.
Biden is pictured attending an Australian Football League match in Melbourne in July 2016, where he appeared confused as then-competition boss Gillon McLachlan (right) attempted to explain the rules to him.
The president made headlines with this tweet shortly after the Chiefs won this year’s Super Bowl, implying that he and Taylor Swift conspired to ensure Kansas City won the game.
He was joined by the country’s foreign minister and the AFL chief executive at the country’s most famous stadium, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he was seen speaking to match officials and looking confused by the radically different play on the field. .
Earlier this year, Biden’s campaign team made waves with a ‘Dark Brandon’ meme that implied he and Taylor Swift conspired to make sure the Chiefs won the Super Bowl.
The image showed the president with red lasers for eyes, and the name came from a meme that originally began as a right-wing slogan, ‘Let’s Go Brandon,’ coded to replace ‘F*** Joe Biden.’
The President tweeted the image with the caption “just as we drew it” shortly after the Chiefs’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers in February.
The president was apparently leaning into claims by Republican commentators that Swift, who is dating Chief star Travis Kelce, is a plant being used to influence the 2024 election for Democrats.