Trump White House Joins Bluesky And Instantly Earns A Very Dubious Distinction

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68f5c591e4b09d351b4433f7">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"6e7c8fa1-bd52-4cf0-9e5a-acc6bc0848c7"}).render("68f5c591e4b09d351b4433f7");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>The Trump White House has taken its fight to Bluesky, the decentralised social media platform that <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bluesky-tips-x-alternative-elon-musk_l_67361990e4b0958bad3e830a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">became a haven</a> for Donald Trump/MAGA critics and the political left after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter-now-X.</p><p>But its <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/whitehouse-47.bsky.social/post/3m3g7chpesc2k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">debut</a> went awkwardly awry.</p><p>The administration’s first post — a 52-second montage of what it called the president’s “greatest hits” since returning to the Oval Office, featuring some of his mocking online posts and his boasts about making America great again — was met with mockery, equal trolling and demands for the release of the so-called <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20r07dg6kro" target="_blank" rel="noopen