The Democratic Party recently chose not to highlight their latest president in their Easter Sunday announcement.
On Sunday, they posted a photo of the back of former President Barack Obama’s head with the Easter Bunny, along with the caption ‘better times at the White House.’
In a photograph captured more than ten years ago during Obama’s presidency, the duo stood gazing at the Washington Monument situated between them.
However, many observers quickly noted the Democrats’ apparent oversight in acknowledging their current Oval Office occupant, Joe Biden.
Although Biden served as Obama’s Vice President and subsequently held the presidency from 2021 to 2025, the Democrats’ X account conspicuously omitted any mention of him in their nostalgic ‘better times’ post. This led some voters to accuse the party of attempting to ‘erase’ him from history.
In the last election cycle, Biden narrowly secured the Democratic nomination before stepping aside in July 2024, allowing Kamala Harris to challenge Trump.
During his final Easter in office, Biden was rumored to be grappling with cognitive challenges, which led to a few notable public missteps.
Biden was mocked online in 2024 after he tripped over his words and referred to ‘oyster bunnies’ instead of the ‘Easter bunnies’ during his opening remarks at the annual Easter Egg roll hosted on the White House South Lawn.
Democrats snubbed Biden in their post on Easter Sunday in 2026
Then-President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, US, April 1, 2024
‘By the way, say hello to oyster bunnies! Come on up here bunnies, so they can see you, c’mon get in there,’ he said at the time to the two large costumed Easter bunnies dressed for the occasion.
Rightwing commentators on X were quick to point out the Biden snub in Sunday’s Easter post.
Former Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh chimed in, writing, ‘Check you out erasing Joe Biden.’
Tim Young, Media fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, wrote: ‘They keep skipping over Biden…’
Some liberals were also surprisingly keen to blast the post.
Biden speaks on the Truman Balcony of the White House during the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 1st, 2024
TrackAIPAC co-founder Cory Archibald told the person behind the Democrats’ X account to ‘Stop nostalgiaposting for the bygone days of indiscriminate drone strikes and persecuting whistleblowers that paved the way for the exact moment we are in,’ before adding that ‘one of the last things Obama did was expand the surveillance powers of the presidency literally days before Trump was sworn in.’
Kamala Harris fan Sky quote-tweeted the original post of Obama with a picture of former vice-president Harris and her hubby and former second gent Doug, with the caption ‘Happier times.’
The most recent Democrat to sit in the Oval was also left out in a similar fashion last year.
‘Happy Easter!’ read a 2025 post on the same official Dem X account, which included photos of former President Obama, as well as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy.
In 2024, during Biden’s last Easter in office, he also sparked fury proclaiming the ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ with a ‘simple message to all trans Americans’ sharing that they were ‘made in the image of God, and … worthy of respect and dignity.’
In 2022, a video went viral of the Easter Bunny directing President Biden away from reporters during the Egg Roll.
During the first Easter of his second term last year, Trump blasted Biden as the ‘WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing,’ before wishing his fellow Americans ‘with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter.’
In 2026, Trump kicked off Easter issuing a new threat to Iran, promising to ‘blow everything up and take over the oil’ if the country does not make a deal with the US soon.
Trump is expected to host an Easter Dinner at the White House on Sunday evening, as well as the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday.
