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The White House Just Launched A Fake MySpace Page On Its Website, And I Can't Believe This Is Real The White House just launched a MySpace parody called "mysafespace," complete with sombreros, Linkin Park, and a "Top 8 Friends" list mocking Democrats. Hot Topic 🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics It's 2025, not 2005, but you wouldn't know it from the White House's website. This week, the Trump administration quietly launched a page called "mysafespace: a place for dems," a full-scale MySpace parody complete with a tiled sombrero background, Linkin Park profile song (What I've Done), and a Top 8 Friends list that looks like it was written by a political shitposter with free time during the government shutdown. And yes, it's hosted right on whitehouse.gov. The page — titled "The Democrats" — reads like a fever dream stitched together from a MySpace template and a Fox News chyron. The mock profile is "owned" by Hakeem, unmistakably meant to be House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). The profile photo — a doctored version of a Getty Images photograph originally published by NBC News — shows Jeffries standing beside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House. In it, Jeffries's face has been crudely edited with a mustache and sombrero. BuzzFeed TrendingHot Topic Let's chat about all things Politics See our Politics Discussions The references go beyond implication. Clicking the profile's contact links opens a pre-filled email to ny08@mail.house.gov and chuck.schumer@schumer.senate.gov — the actual addresses for Jeffries's and Schumer's congressional offices. It even lists Hakeem's "Last Work Day" as October 1, 2025 — the day the government shut down — neatly anchoring the parody to the real-world standoff dominating headlines. If the page looks like nostalgia, it reads like propaganda. The "About Me" section reads like a composite of Twitter replies and AM talk radio — a best-of Republican talking points posed as parody. It starts with: "Hey we're Democrats in the House and Senate. We love DEI, transgender for everyone, and handing out taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants. We couldn't care less if our men and women in uniform get paid or if our neighborhoods are safe - we just love playing politics with people's livelihoods!!" Then continues: "Heroes: Anyone who identifies as a radical leftist. Transnational gangs, illegal immigrants," and "Who I'd like to meet: Honestly, we couldn't meet enough members of Antifa or illegal immigrants. They're so awesome." Even the "Nicknames" list piles on: "Sombrero Guy," "Temu Obama," "Dollar Store Obama," and "Chuck E. Cheese Obama." Collectively, it amounts to a layered performance of race and class mockery, packaged as internet humor. Remember when MySpace let you publicly rank your friends? The White House apparently does, too. Its "Top 8 Friends" feature revives that relic of early internet culture and turns it into political theater, blending real Democratic leaders with meme caricatures and people whose lives have been upended by US immigration policy. Even the profile photos carry subtext: former president Biden's image isn't a portrait at all, but a robotic arm automatically signing his name — a visual nod to the conspiracy that he was merely a puppet president. Likewise, "Hakeem's Interests" plays like a conservative bingo card of liberal stereotypes, mixing recycled anti-immigration slurs with caricatures of progressive politics. The song list mocks social-justice language ("Stay Woke") and leans on Latino tropes ("Mariachi Music Playlist for a Fiesta"), while references to "woke" film remakes and government shutdowns extend the joke to feminism and federal spending. Though the page presents itself as satire, it mostly exposes how little its creators grasp the politics they're parodying. Including The Handmaid's Tale under Democrat "Television" lands closer to projection than humor, and the "Books" list ends with a familiar canon of ideological symbols — texts invoked less for their content and more for their perceived rejection of capitalism and American exceptionalism. Click any of "Hakeem's Blog Entries," and the illusion of parody vanishes. Each link redirects to an official White House page — press materials and policy sheets published under the Trump administration's banner. Additionally, the "Subscribe to this blog" link redirects to the White House's TikTok page — specifically, a video titled "nah I'm out," in which a refrigerator clean-out cuts abruptly to a jump-scare of a mustached, sombrero-wearing Hakeem Jeffries. Needless to say, the timing isn't subtle. The page reads as a joke about government dysfunction, published while federal workers remain unpaid in what has become the longest government shutdown in US history. Across Reddit, users called the page everything from "juvenile" to "fucking cringe." Some were angry, while others were just incredulous that something this unserious could appear on an official government site: On X, users similarly described the stunt as "tone-deaf," with some cracking jokes of their own and others exploring the rest of the links: While users wouldn't think twice about seeing the memeification of government on SNL, it lands differently coming from the White House itself. What might have passed as parody anywhere else has become official messaging in meme form. In the end, the real joke and the platform hosting it both belong to the White House. What do you think? Is this the weirdest form of "political communication" yet — or something more unsettling? Let us know in the comments below. 👇
