I reported on how the White House had the real solution to the war in Ukraine — reaching out to 30 TikTok “stars” to push the Biden Administration’s line on the situation, including people like this 18-year-old who dances for the camera.
To get updated on Ukraine, the White House invited this TikTok Star to a Zoom Call.
She has hundreds of videos on her YouTube channel. This is where I go first to find Biden-approved news about the war.🤡
They are now in control. pic.twitter.com/yzxiPOsZ22
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 11, 2022
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad — that this is the level that our government is at. They did the same thing with COVID when they wanted to promote their story to this age group.
In addition to updates on the war, they mixed in a bunch of lies, including White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claiming that the Russians “hacked the election” in 2016, and that Biden bore no responsibility for inflation or the rise in gas prices. Everything else was blamed, including the pandemic and Vladimir Putin.
But SNL saw the possibilities of how funny it could be — if they gave everyone a window into how the meeting “really” went. They did a take on it for their cold open, and it was very well done, with some great lines showing Biden’s lack of comprehension of the internet, the “landline of presidents.”
They joke that Psaki (Kate McKinnon) suggested the meeting with influencers as a joke, but “then, it actually happened.”
Biden (James Austin Johnson) talks about how he knew “I understand Putin, I understand war,” he says. “But there’s one thing I don’t understand: Computer.”
“He means ‘technology’ but he says ‘computer,’” Psaki explains.
The group then get into the madness of TikTok members in the meeting. They first mock actress AnnaLynne McCord who writes a poem imagining she is the mother to Vladimir Putin. Biden was mocked with one man that claimed he was in the Boo Boo Boy boys who did raps and played pranks. But considering that Biden knows Corn Pop, perhaps that’s not much of a stretch.
A woman is pretending she’s a 12-year-old girl, who does animal make-up. They then have Hunter Biden bring up his laptop. Somehow, they have an older, middle-aged roofer among the people — but he explains they likely confused him with a 17-year-old female TikToker who had 130 million followers.
Then they meet a man who has a toilet plunger stuck to his genitals. Biden called him “truly inspiring.”
It was one of the funnier skits that they’ve done in a while. Finally they were able to ridicule the Biden Administration’s basic absurdity and show how out of touch Biden is with everything. Not to mention they nailed that this is about the level of the Biden team’s policy efforts.