Joe Biden‘s campaign team have been caught out making an embarrassing mistake in an attack on Donald Trump over his dismissal of the NFL as ‘boring’ with the social media post showing the President holding an Australian football.
The post on Threads was timed to coincide with Thursday night’s NFL draft and featured clips of Trump calling football ‘boring as hell’ and saying ‘nobody cares’ about the country’s most popular sport.
That footage is contrasted with a series of photos of Biden welcoming the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs to the White House, receiving a ball with his name on it from the Air Force team – and lastly, posing with a red football in his hands.
The attack finishes with the words, ‘Make the right pick in November.’
The Biden Harris campaign post contrasts vision of Trump blasting the NFL with images of the President meeting the Super Bowl champion Kansas Chiefs (pictured)
However, it also ends with the above shot of Biden holding an Australian Rules football – which looks nothing like the pigskin used in the American game
The ball in the last image is used in Australian Rules football and the photo was taken when the commander in chief watched a game down under in July 2016, when he was still vice-president.
Footballs used in the sport’s top competition, the Australian Football League (AFL) look nothing like those found in the NFL.
In addition to the completely different colour, they are noticeably larger, and feature rounded ends as opposed to the American balls’ pointy shape.
Trump has been vocal in his criticism of the state of the NFL and the post appears to refer to remarks he made at a campaign rally in Nevada in September 2020, on the first Sunday of that football season.
‘Football’s boring as hell. It’s just not the same, right?’ he told the crowd in Henderson, saying that while Americans used to ask that events not be scheduled while games were on, now ‘they say, “Can you possibly do it during a football game?”‘
Trump has been a long-time critic of the NFL, lashing out over issues including players taking a knee during the national anthem (pictured)
The 45th President (pictured with NFL stars Joe Burrow, centre, and Nick Bosa, right, at a recent UFC event) has been slamming the league since the 1980s
The attack also references what Trump said at a rally in Carson City that same year, when he told his supporters, ‘Nobody cares about football. They ought to get smart because they can’t win this war. We want people that love our country.’
Trump has blasted the league over players taking a knee during the national anthem and called for stars who make the protest to be fired or suspended.
His criticism of the NFL goes back as far as the 1980s, when he owned the New Jersey Generals team in the breakaway USFL. He also tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014.
Biden’s visit to the game between the Carlton Blues and West Coast Eagles came during a lightning visit to Australia.
Biden is pictured as he took in an Australian Football League game in Melbourne in July 2016, where he looked confused as the then-boss of the competition, Gillon McLachlan (right) tried to explain the rules to him
The President made the headlines with this tweet shortly after the Chiefs won this year’s Super Bowl, implying he and Taylor Swift conspired to make sure Kansas City won the match
He was joined by the country’s foreign minister and the CEO of the AFL at the country’s most famous stadium, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he was seen speaking to match officials and looking confused by the radically different play on the field.
Earlier this year, Biden’s campaign team made a splash with a ‘Dark Brandon’ meme implying he and Taylor Swift plotted to make sure the Chiefs won the Super Bowl.
The image showed the president with red lasers as eyes, with the name coming from a meme that originally started out as a right-wing slogan, ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ – coded to stand in for ‘F*** Joe Biden.’
The President tweeted the image with the caption ‘just like we drew it up’ soon after the Chiefs’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers in February.
The president was seemingly leaning in on claims by Republican commentators that Swift – who is dating Chief star Travis Kelce- is a plant being used to swing the 2024 election for the Democrats.
