Donald Trump figured a music video by rockers Nickelback would be a great way to get in a dig at Joe Biden, so he tweeted a meme on Wednesday that included an edited version of the band’s 2005 song “Photograph.”
The Guardian reports that , at a part in the song where the band’s lead singer Chad Kroeger normally holds a picture frame aloft, the version posted by America’s president showed Biden, his son Hunter, and Devon Archer, who was once a board member with Hunter at Burisma Holdings, a gas company in Ukraine.
The 2014 image, believed to have been taken during a golf game at Sebonack Golf Club in the Hamptons, was first aired by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, the Daily Mail reports.
Trump’s version was overlayed on the song’s original lyrics:
Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red?
And what the hell is on Joey’s head?
(“Joey” meaning Joe Biden, get it?) Nickelback, or perhaps their representatives, Warner Media Group, soon reported Trump for copyright abuse, and the clip was removed.
“This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner,” reads a notice posted in its place, and the notice itself has now become its own meme, of sorts.
omg omg omg Nickelback had Twitter take down Trump’s Photograph tweet for copyright violation omg omg omg pic.twitter.com/q3Ztlfex6C
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 3, 2019
Complete with block text pointing out Archer as a “Ukraine gas exec,” Trump’s aim was to paint a picture (sorry) that Biden knew about Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine, which have come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks. Biden was also shown in the video remarking that he had never spoken with Hunter about his overseas business dealings.
Trump’s ongoing impeachment inquiry centres on a call between him and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, in which Trump called on the latter to probe the Ukraine ties of Hunter and Joe Biden. No evidence supports his claim, but Trump has repeatedly said that Joe Biden was involved in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into Hunter’s business in the country.
Congress began its impeachment probe of Trump when a whistleblower, believed to be from the CIA, raised concerns about the propriety of Trump’s call with Zelensky.
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