Former President Barack Obama’s nerdy dad jokes, ended up painfully unfunny while filming a TikTok video to save Democrats from a crushing midterm defeat.
Obama took to the social media platform, while trying to appear young and relevant to urge viewers to vote on “Under The Desk News,” which offers Gen Z-ers quick takes on current events.
In the sketch, the former leader of the free world sits under a desk with the host, Vitus Spehar, and urges the TikTok star to come out and cast a ballot.
“Here’s the thing: you can stay under the desk for now, but when it comes time for voting you’re going to have to get up,” Obama says in the video. “You got climate change legislation on the ballot, you got gun safety. And, when we can elect more pro-choice members of Congress, we can re-institute Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.”
Spehar then asks, “Is now a bad time to say that I voted for McCain in 2008?”
“Mmm… as long as you voted,” Obama replies with a grin.
conservatives and tastemakers online soundly mocked Obama for appearing in the video. While others said his one-liners didn’t make the cut and fell rather flat.
“Ooof this is painful,” tweeted Andrew Gruel, a Food Network judge.
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller, a contributing editor at The Spectator, joked that the ex-president’s performance was so bad it ought to be outlawed.
“Obama is participating on TikTok, a legitimate national security threat,” Miller wrote.
The video had raked in 1.4 million views on TikTok by Wednesday afternoon.
nope! stay in your lane Obama. TikTok is not it.
Obama, once a jackass ALWAYS a jackass!! PATHETIC!
So pathetic and irrelevant! Surely Hussein Obama now is aware that he and Slow Joe are universally recognized as the most corrupt, divisive, criminal and anti-american squatters to ever stain these United States and have done NOTHING but bring DESTRUCTION, Fascism, Identity Politics, governmental crime, dishonesty, treason and race-baiting to the forefront of their horendous administrations full of looters, crooks, trannies, affirmative action lackeys, foreigners and absolutely unqualified failures as their department and agency heads. If there’s is any justice and karma in the universe, both of these hateful, narcissistic losers will soon be taking their well-deserved and permanent dirt naps which will be a wonderful day of celebration for all of the world! BTW, Hussein isn’t, not was he ever considered “cool” by anyone with an IQ higher than “little bus” level !!!
Well said!