Democrats Share Optimistic Easter Message of ‘Better Times,’ Overlooking Biden

In a surprising move, the Democratic Party’s Easter Sunday message overlooked their most recent president, Joe Biden, sparking conversations and raising eyebrows among supporters and critics alike.

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.’

The party’s message featured a photograph from over a decade ago, capturing former President Barack Obama alongside a scenic view of the Washington Monument. This nostalgic nod to the past drew attention, but for some, it also highlighted an omission that was hard to ignore.

Observers quickly noted the absence of any mention of Biden, who not only served as Obama’s Vice President but also held the presidency from 2021 to 2025. The omission led to speculation and comments from voters suggesting that the Democrats were seemingly ‘erasing’ Biden from their narrative of ‘better times.’

This oversight is particularly intriguing given Biden’s pivotal role in the Democratic Party. He managed to secure the party’s nomination in the last election cycle, though he eventually stepped aside in July 2024, allowing Kamala Harris to take the reins in a challenging campaign against Donald Trump.

Biden painstakingly held on to the Democratic ticket in the last election, before conceding in July 2024 and allowing Kamala Harris to run against Trump. 

During Biden’s last Easter as president, he was already rumored to have been dealing with cognitive issues, and had experienced public gaffes and embarrassments.

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 seemingly 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. 

Right-wing 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…’

Another person wrote: ‘Why are you guys suddenly pretending Biden didn’t exist.’ 

And a fourth added: ‘Ashamed of Biden, are you?’ 

While another user on X said: ‘What happened to Joe Biden? Even the Democrats don’t want to talk about him.’ 

And a sixth wrote: ‘After years of gaslighting the American public that Biden was the most accomplished president, they try so hard to erase him. They can’t be trusted.’ 

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 1, 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 Office was also left out in a similar fashion last year. 

‘Happy Easter!’ read a 2025 post on the same official Democrat 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.