Social Media Has a Field Day With Biden Border Adviser’s NYT Column: ‘Like an Arsonist Saying They Know How to Put Out Fire’
President Joe Biden talks with U.S. Border Patrol agents as they walk along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Social media has spent the last day or so brutally mocking a New York Times opinion column, dragging the piece over its unintentionally ironic headline.
The piece, written by Blas Nuñez-Neto, a former assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security under President Joe Biden, is titled “I Was One of Biden’s Border Advisers. Here’s How to Fix Our Immigration System.”
Users on X were quick to ridicule the headline and its intrinsic contradictions, churning out a slew of parody headlines that mirrored that of the Times piece.
The official account of the Department of Homeland Security posted a screenshot of the headline along with the caption, “I was Humpty Dumpty. Here’s how to sit on a wall.”
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) tweeted, “I played football for @3YearLetterman. Here’s how you beat Nick Saban,” comparing a youth football coach to a legendary NFL coach.
Podcaster Comfortably Smug continued the sports parodies — “I’m a Cincinnati Bengals player. Here’s how you win Superbowls” — while GOP operative Steve Guest compared the article to “an arsonist saying they know how to put out fire.”
Below are a sampling of a few more responses.
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