In Biden’s image, the candidate sports a lavender sweatshirt proclaiming “if God doesn’t vote for me, then she ain’t Black ” in Clinton’s image, she is portrayed as a 17-year-old transgender law major who has anxiety and “hates Monica.” These criticisms did not slow k0rdon down, however: in the following days, he created several other memes that similarly depicted both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton as queer college students. But others users were understandably upset by the memes, calling them strange, unnecessary, or just overall inappropriate. The tweet garnered over 25,000 likes, with many comments marveling over the alternate universe the artist had created.
Needless to say, k0rdon’s meme received extremely mixed feedback. In k0rdon’s image, Trump stands shyly, grasping an inhaler between painted fingernails, sporting a red “MAGA” mask and a tattoo on his arm that reads, “met god, he’s a proud boy.” He is also successful on Etsy, an asthmatic anime fiend, and, insanely, dating Joe Biden. According to the fictional universe k0rdon has created, Trump is 19 years old, uses he/they pronouns, and is studying as a Business major. On October 4th, Twitter user k0rdon, a 19-year-old artist based in Ireland, posted a meme he created depicting Donald Trump as a queer college student.
I know I’ve started every essay like this lately, but the other day on Twitter I scrolled past an image that stopped me in my tracks. Click here to read this essay on Substack.