In a masterstroke of digital audacity, the Trump White House crashed the gates of Bluesky on October 17, 2025, transforming the platform—long a cozy echo chamber for left-leaning celebrities and activists fleeing the “toxicity” of X—into a battlefield of unbridled memes and mockery. Their debut post? A 52-second montage video that’s pure comedic gold, kicking off with President Trump beaming under a gleaming crown, captioned “DADDY’S HOME,” followed by a parade of triumphs: border walls rising, executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and jet flyovers saluting the MAGA faithful. But the crown jewel of the troll? A recurring image of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, photoshopped into a sombrero and mustache, mariachi-style, nodding to an earlier White House gag that had Democrats seething. It’s not just a post; it’s an invasion, with DHS and HHS accounts piling on, urging “patriots” to rally against a potential government shutdown. Bluesky’s blue-check brigade, from Hollywood has-beens to coastal pundits, watched in horror as their sanctuary got Trump-ified overnight.

The backlash from Bluesky’s leftist denizens has been nothing short of apoplectic, a symphony of meltdowns that could soundtrack a comedy roast. Users flooded the replies with wails of “fascism in meme form” and “this is why we left Twitter,” blocking the official @whitehouse.bsky.social handle faster than you can say “safe space shattered.” One viral thread decried the crown as “authoritarian cosplay” ahead of Saturday’s No Kings protests, while another accused the video of “cultural appropriation” over the sombrero—ignoring, of course, that it’s all in jest at Jeffries’ expense for his shutdown antics. Engagement metrics tell the tale: the post racked up thousands of reposts on X (where the White House cross-promoted it), but on Bluesky, it’s a graveyard of muted notifications and unfollow sprees. These are the same folks who once reveled in deplatforming dissent; now, they’re clutching pearls as the Oval Office turns their turf into a Trump troll farm. Priceless schadenfreude.

Ah, but the real gut-buster is the delicious inversion of 2020’s great digital purge, when left-wing overlords at Twitter, Facebook, and beyond banned President Trump from their realms faster than a tweet could trend, citing “incitement” after January 6 and consigning him to Truth Social exile. Back then, it was a unified front of Big Tech censors and activist owners cheering the silencing of the “dangerous” commander-in-chief, all while Bluesky launched as their virtuous alternative—a haven for the “good” discourse. Fast-forward to 2025: Trump wins in a landslide, buys back into the game on his terms, and now he’s the one gatecrashing their party, crown and all. No bans this time; just unfiltered access to remind them who’s really in charge. It’s poetic justice, a reminder that the platforms they weaponized against him have boomeranged, leaving Bluesky’s brigade not just unhappy, but utterly outmaneuvered in the meme wars they thought they’d won. Daddy’s home, indeed—and the left’s safe spaces just got a whole lot less safe.