The Democratic National Committee posted an Easter greeting on X featuring former President Barack Obama posing with an Easter bunny and the caption "Better times at the White House." One former Democratic president was conspicuously absent from the nostalgia trip: the most recent one.

Joe Biden, the 46th president and the last Democrat to actually occupy the Oval Office, received no mention, the Post reported. No photo. No nod. The DNC reached back to Obama and leapfrogged the man who served between him and the current administration.

The internet did what the internet does.

The Replies Wrote Themselves

Progressive journalist Ken Klippenstein captured the mood succinctly: "I like how they just skip past Biden lol."

The account Western Lensmen piled on with a more pointed observation:

"Imagine ignoring one of the most iconic moments of the most recent Democrat presidency."

That "iconic moment" refers to a clip that quickly resurfaced in the replies: a seemingly confused Biden getting redirected by an Easter bunny mascot. Another user struck the same note, writing that it was "weird how you skipped over the last Democrat President's famous Easter moment."

Even a pro-Biden user account tried to do the cleanup work the DNC wouldn't, posting an image of Biden with Jill alongside the hashtag "#BetterWithBiden" and the caption "Even better times." When your own supporters have to graft your legacy onto a post your own party crafted without you, the message is clear enough.

Conservative pundit David Marcus summed it up without ceremony: "Oof, brutal smack down of Joe Biden."

The Party That Forgot Its Own President

This is a party that spent four years insisting Biden was sharp, capable, and the indispensable bulwark against the return of Donald Trump. They told Americans that questioning his fitness was cheap, ageist, and tantamount to disinformation. They held the line right up until they didn't, and then Biden was shuffled offstage with the kind of efficiency usually reserved for a disappointing halftime act.

Now they can't even include him in an Easter post.

The DNC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, which tracks. There is no good explanation. Either they deliberately excluded Biden because they've concluded he's a liability to even the memory of the party, or they forgot about him entirely. Neither option reflects well.

Obama, of course, remains the Democratic brand. He always has been. Biden's entire 2020 candidacy was built on the premise that he was the next best thing to a third Obama term, a vessel for someone else's coalition. The DNC's Easter post simply made the subtext into text. Biden was the placeholder. The party has moved on to pretending the placeholder never existed.

What the Post Was Supposed to Do

The framing was obvious. "Better times at the White House" was aimed squarely at Trump. It was meant to evoke Democratic nostalgia and contrast it with the current administration. Standard opposition messaging.

But the execution backfired because you cannot post "better times" and skip the most recent Democratic presidency without inviting the obvious question: were Biden's times not better? The DNC's own graphic argued, implicitly, that the Obama era was worth remembering and the Biden era was not.

That's not an anti-Trump message. That's a confession.

The Biden Legacy Problem

Democrats face a genuinely uncomfortable reality. Their last president left office as a figure his own party worked to ease out of a reelection bid. The public moments that defined his tenure, the wandering, the redirections, the verbal stumbles, are not the stuff of aspirational social media content. You can't build a "better times" campaign around footage that half the country watched with a mix of concern and secondhand embarrassment.

So they skip him. And in skipping him, they confirm every criticism they spent years calling unfair.

The people who said Biden wasn't up to the job were told they were wrong. Now the DNC itself acts as though Biden's presidency is something to route around rather than celebrate. The contradiction doesn't need commentary. It speaks fluently on its own.

Meanwhile, at the Actual White House

While Democrats were busy erasing their recent history, the White House was set to hold the traditional Easter Egg roll on the South Lawn on Monday. Trump, for his part, spent his Easter Sunday on Truth Social with characteristic directness, posting about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint through which over a fifth of the world's seaborne oil flows annually.

The DNC wanted the story to be about Trump. Instead, the story became about the party's relationship with its own immediate past. A past it apparently finds too embarrassing to acknowledge on a holiday post.

Obama wished Americans "a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope." Biden got nothing from his own party. Not even a mention.

That tells you everything about where the Democratic brand stands: one president they revere, one they'd rather forget, and an opposition message that collapsed under the weight of what they left out.