Joe Biden shared his favorite memes with BFF Barack Obama, saying they’re “all true”
The bromance between Barack Obama and Joe Biden is the stuff of memes — many, many memes — and now Biden himself is revealing his favorites.
In a new interview with NBC News, the former vice president opens up about his close relationship with Obama, and says that the feel-good social media memes about the twosome are “in essence … all true.”
He adds, “A couple of ones I liked were ones where I was trying on Ray Bans and he’s lying on the couch and I turn around and I said, ‘Which ones do you like?’ And he looks at me and says, ‘Joe, Joe, come on, focus here.’ ”
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Biden said another of his favorite memes was one involving him trying to convince Obama to leave a fake birth certificate behind for successor Donald Trump to find. The joke was a reference to Trump’s long-running “birther” crusade, in which he pushed the false conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in the United States.
biden: cmon you gotta print a fake birth certificate, put it in an envelope labeled "SECRET" and leave it in the oval office desk
obama: joe pic.twitter.com/UTtv1JkE5o— jomny sun (@jonnysun) November 11, 2016
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After Trump’s election, some of his critics turned to Obama-Biden memes for comfort. Many of the 2016 election-era memes depicted Biden urging an exasperated Obama to play tricks on Trump before leaving the White House.
Biden: Ideally I'd like to include traps from all of the Home Alone movies, but we've only got two months so the Home Alone 2 plan is fine pic.twitter.com/iFkkJNmkvl
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 12, 2016
Obama: Did you replace all the toiletries with travel size bottles?
Biden: He's got tiny hands Barack, I want him to feel welcome here pic.twitter.com/e7NRIZ43Ww— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 11, 2016
"barack please don't leave me with them"
"joe you're leaving when I leave"
"oh right lmao love u" pic.twitter.com/zfIt3Bv0wl— Heather Beattie (@witchyvibe) September 27, 2016
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Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden previously told the Dow Jones blog Moneyish that when her father first saw the memes, he “sat there for an hour and laughed.”
“My parents had a nice relationship with the Obamas and still do,” Ashley said in March.
