Hunter Biden takes internet by storm

Jason Miller, a top adviser on all three of Trump’s presidential campaigns, laughed about Biden’s online presence and joked that the posts were “trying to kickstart his art career.” 

Two senior Trump administration officials, one current and one former, gave Biden’s content stronger reviews.

“I didn’t know he had it in him,” the current senior administration official told the Washington Examiner. “Game recognizes game.”

A former Trump White House official called Biden’s style “genuinely funny” and questioned why the Biden White House “didn’t put him to work s***posting when his dad was in office,” a sentiment shared by a former senior Biden White House official. 

“I’m not surprised he’s doing it. I am surprised he’s good at it,” the Biden official told the Washington Examiner. “Who knew that he was this funny and quick with it. We should have freed him a long time ago.”

“The Biden alum group chats are lighting up with his tweets,” they continued. “I don’t know. He’s on track to be the best poster of us all.”

Another Biden White House official told the Washington Examiner that, during the elder Biden’s term, nearly all staffers “were warned very severely to just never get involved in anything related to the family, so there were a very limited number of people who talked to Hunter at all.”

“The only folks who really would have known [him] are like [senior Biden family officials] Annie Tomasini or like Anthony Bernal,” that person added. “They would knife any of us if we ever talked about Hunter.”

Former President Joe Biden’s son has been vilified for years over his battles with addiction, adultery, and questionable business ventures, but his return to social media just over two weeks ago has quickly become one of the most hotly watched developments on the internet. He chose not to comment on this story.

Hunter Biden’s engagement with a fake 2028 campaign poster, showing him with a meth pipe photoshopped into his mouth, even got Trump to weigh in Friday afternoon.

“You would think that the past has something to do with winning an election. And I would say his past is not the greatest,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday when asked about the post. “Where’s Hunter? Remember, my ‘Where’s Hunter’ became the No. 1 shirt anywhere in the world for about three weeks. I’m not going to say anything bad.”

Biden responded to both Trump’s comments and the campaign poster with good humor.

“On a serious note. I would like [Fox News’ Peter Doocy] to please ask the president when I get my royalty check for those where’s Hunter t-shirts. It’s been 4 years now and he keeps telling me the check is in the mail,” he wrote after sharing the clip of Trump.

“I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth,” he joked in response to the mock campaign poster. “A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Another senior Biden White House official told the Washington Examiner that Biden’s social media posts aren’t specifically meant to indicate any aspirations for higher office.

“He’s just doing what he wants to do, like we all do, and is sounding off,” they assessed.

Andrew Bates, principal deputy press secretary in the Biden White House, additionally told the Washington Examiner that “it makes sense” that Hunter “wants to tell [his] story in [his] own words.”

“It’s clear that in this modern environment, where Americans are getting a lot more information from podcasts and streaming shows, they want people to be very open and personal. They don’t want manicured, calculated sound bites,” he continued. “They want to feel like people are being real with them, and like they have an actual sense of who you are. I think in a lot of ways Hunter is doing that — speaking like a normal human being, informal and direct.”

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Furthermore, Bates supported Biden “going into a lot of these spaces that do have big audiences, especially right-wing ones, and debunking Trump administration messaging.”

“It shows that, one, he has the guts to go on shows that has been hostile to him, but, two, the Trump family profiteering absolutely dwarfs anything they called him out for,” he concluded. “Just numerically, if you compare how much money he made in total from Burisma, they probably make more money than that in a day. It seems like he is breaking through, pointing that huge discrepancy out. And that’s timely, because people were promised that the Trump administration was going to end inflation, lower their costs, and that promise is broken.”