Trump's copyright-violating Nickelback meme has been reposted on the White House YouTube channel
The White House won't let its Nickelback meme die.
After President Trump stunned the world Wednesday by tweeting a meme-based attack on former Vice President Joe Biden using the Nickelback song "Photograph," Twitter took the video down due to a copyright complaint from Warner Music Inc., CNN reports. The tweet itself is still online, but the video isn't playable.
But apparently insistent upon getting this crucial content out to the American public, the White House has now actually uploaded the exact same video to its official YouTube channel, the same channel that mostly houses uploads of events like press conferences and appearances with foreign leaders. The Associated Press' Zeke Miller points out this would seemingly suggest it was produced by the White House itself and is, therefore, not just any Nickelback meme but a rare taxpayer-funded one.
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Warner Music may now find itself engaged in a sort of game of whack-a-mole trying to purge this video once and for all, teeing up a legitimate presidential Nickelback meme war. That's 2019 for you.
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Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.
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