Former President Donald Trump had a juvenile response to his nemesis President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on social media.
In the bizarre post on the ex-president’s Instagram account following Biden’s high stakes speech at the U.S. Capitol, Trump used a video of the president’s address from last year.
The clips included four different filters over the president’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ faces to distort them.
One of the filters showed Biden and Harris with bulging eyes. The next had the pair in hats with pigtail style braided hair. Another showed Biden with a Pinocchio-like nose while the fourth filter imposed a dog’s head speaking on Biden’s body.
The videos appeared to have been chosen at random, and there was no caption with the post.
Trump responded to Biden’s State of the Union address with a series of posts on Truth Social where he pushed back on some of Biden’s remarks but also made fun of his appearance
One of Trump’s Instagram posts the night of Biden’s State of the Union was a bizarre series of clips from Biden’s previous address with a series of filters over him and Vice President Harris
It was one of several posts Trump put out throughout the evening has Biden blasted Trump during a prime-time address without ever mentioning Trump by name, only referring to the likely Republican presidential nominee as ‘my predecessor.’
Trump was also furiously posting on his Truth Social account throughout the night after promising live commentary of the State of the Union address.
Some of the more than 50 ‘truths’ he posted included images. There were a few short lines on Iran, Putin, Ukraine and the border. But some of his responses focused entirely on Biden’s appearance rather than policy.
In one he wrote ‘His hair is much better in the front than on the back!’
In another he wrote Biden ‘looks so angry when he’s talking.’
Another was ‘He is so angry and crazy!’
Biden delivered a high-stakes State of the Union address where he went after his ‘predecessor’ but never mentioned Trump by name
At the same time, it appeared the social media website used by Trump had issues throughout the president’s address.
Downdetector, the online platform that provides users with information on the status of various websites, showed Truth Social having disruptions.
There was a massive jump in reported outages starting around 9pm just when the president was set to deliver his address. The outages lasted until about 11pm, well after the president had finished his speech.
Some users who tried to visit Trump’s page found a loading wheel and were unable to see what he was posting.
The Biden campaign mocked the Trump rapid response operation by sending out an email with one word ‘sad’ and an image of what appeared to be Truth Social not working.
Despite the bizarre nature of Trump’s Instagram video, his followers on the platform seemed to like it, giving it more than 284,000 likes by the end of the night, with users commenting on how ‘hilarious’ it was.
Others did not think it was as ‘funny’ as others. With one user writing ‘Yeah this is mature.’