Donald Trump, it’s fairly clear, is the only president who would ever think to trash-talk about an obscure political controversy involving his predecessor, while speaking to a group of children at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
This happened on Sunday, when Trump decided it would be fun to tell the kids about Joe Biden’s Autopen.
Biden, in what is common practice, used an Autopen to sign some pieces of legislation and pardons while he was president. Trump has sought to take legal steps to address this, with the idea of getting courts to overturn Biden’s actions, although there’s no legal basis for this, and the Justice Department recently shelved that criminal probe.
That brings us to Sunday, when Trump talked about the autopen with kids, per the New York Times.
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“You know, Biden would use the autopen,” the president told the children. “He was incapable of signing his name.”
Trump is shit talking Biden to the kids at the Easter Egg Roll 🤣 pic.twitter.com/h7GXHbUlny
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) April 6, 2026
Per the Times, “One child interjected, ‘What?'”
Trump also, at the same event, talked belligerently about Iran, while standing next to the Easter Bunny and the First Lady.
The President of the United States addresses the nation about the Islamic Republic of Iran, flanked by the Easter Bunny.
We are living in a simulation. pic.twitter.com/gUdAfzi4fq
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 6, 2026
“We’re never going to let them have a nuclear weapon,” Mr. Trump said at the Sunday afternoon event. “If we have to pay a little extra for fuel for a couple of months, we’ll do that — but we’re never going to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon because this beautiful White House wouldn’t look so good.”
“The Easter Bunny kept its distance,” the Times added.
This came a few hours after Trump, in a Truth Social post, threatened to destroy civilian infrastructure in Iran, dropped a rare f-bomb, and ended it with “praise to be to Allah.”
“These statements are not made in a vacuum,” the Council of American-Islamic Relations said in its statement in response. “They follow a long pattern of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies that have dehumanized Muslims at home and abroad.”
Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.
