As former President Donald Trump faced arraignment Thursday on charges linked to his challenge of the 2020 election, President Joe Biden released a social media video using the “Dark Brandon” theme to hawk merchandise.
Enter Roseanne Barr, with a question to ask.
“Do you get 10% of all sales for this too?” she posted in her reply to Biden’s video of himself drinking a cup of coffee and saying, “I like my coffee dark.”
Do you get 10% of all sales for this too?
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) August 4, 2023
Barr was referring to reports that Joe Biden, referred to as the “big guy,” was going to be included for a 10 percent cut of the profits from a deal Hunter Biden had in the works with a Chinese energy company.
The Biden tweet drew plenty of other sarcastic replies.
I fixed it for you buddy.pic.twitter.com/EDhct4oEzt
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 3, 2023
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 3, 2023
— Edward (@edwardrussl) August 3, 2023
A link posted with the video sends the curious to a page where they can buy a mug and donate to Biden’s re-election campaign.
The mug shows Biden with the laser eyes that are a hallmark of the “Dark Brandon” meme Biden supporters have used on social media to promote the normally frail, often-confused president as some kind of superhero-in-hiding.
“Dark Brandon, dark roast. Tea drinkers welcome. Purchase is a donation to Biden Victory Fund. AMERICAN MADE | UNION PRINTED,” the text for the $22 mug stated.
“Dark Brandon” merchandise makes up 54 percent of the items sold by the Biden campaign, according to Axios.
The meme is a response to the use of the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” as an anti-Biden rallying cry. That phrase had its roots in a report claiming that’s what a NASCAR crowd was saying when the actual words being chanted were ”f— Joe Biden.”
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Axios noted that Biden is lagging when it comes to donations from small donors, defined as those who give less than $200.
In the past quarter, Biden’s campaign took in $10.2 million from small donors.
During the same period in 2011, when he was seeking his second term, then-President Barack Obama raked in $21.2 million haul from small donors.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
