Biden's bizarre attempt to shame Trump and win back black voters on TikTok backfires spectacularly

A Biden-affiliated TikTok account's post attempting to inform people about a Donald Trump's controversy was slammed with commenters asking about inflation instead.

The fight over who influences the space took a turn this weekend after Trump joined TikTok to the tune of millions of followers on an app he once tried to get banned.

President Biden continues to try and battle back, posting a video Sunday night about the story of a former producer coming forward to claim Donald Trump used a racial slur during the filming of Season 1 of 'The Apprentice.'

In a cringe-worthy clip posted to the BidenHQ TikTok account, an unidentified female 'influencer' was seen trying to re-tell the story in a manner to shame Trump as a 'lifelong racist', and recounted other incidents. 

However, the post has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, as it was inundated with responses concerned with what seemed to be more pressing matters.

The comments were loaded with questions like: 'Why is my rent expensive?' or 'Why can't I afford anything?' and 'Why did Joe Biden say poor kids are just as smart as white kids?'

Another account wrote: 'I can't afford eggs' while another bemoaned that they 'can't wait to afford a house.' 

The influencer hosting the video began by saying 'You guys have to see this new report about Donald Trump' before cutting to a clip of Omarosa Manigault Newman suggesting the clip was potentially real.

Former Apprentice contestant and Trump White House aide Manigault Newman has claimed to have heard the tape, which the Trump camp has long denied exists. 

'Anyone notice a pattern here? This is the same man who called to execute innocent black men and and spread racist lies about the first black president. Donald Trump is exactly who we all knew he was: a lifelong racist,' she continued. 

'Black voters kicked Donald Trump out of the White House in 2020 and we're going to do it again in November.' 

The video has over 1.4 million views and 1,000 comments, many of them with the same complaints over inflation and cost of living. 

The End Wokeness account on X wrote: 'HAHAHA this is epic. Biden's campaign is desperately trying to win black voters on TikTok… it's backfiring spectacularly.' 

'This is a completely fabricated and bull**** story that was already peddled in 2016. Nobody took it seriously then, and they won't now, because it's fake news,' said spokesman Steven Chueng. 

Trump joined TikTok on Saturday evening and has already posted his first video - a montage of his evening at a UFC fight in New Jersey, just days after he became a convicted felon.

The flashy, 13-second launch video shows Trump entering the arena and waving to fans and posing for selfies.

It saw Trump shaking hands and taking selfies with different fans at the UFC fight. 

'The president is now on TikTok', Trump was introduced by UFC president Dana White, before saying directly to the camera, 'It's my honor' while American Bad Ass by Kid Rock played in the background.

At the end of the video, Trump leans close to the camera and asks, 'That was a good walk on, right?'

The former president aptly captioned his first TikTok: 'Launching my TikTok at UFC 302.' 

Trump's account has already amassed over four million followers, over ten times that of the Biden-Harris HQ account. 

He became acquainted with TikTok during his recent hush money trial.

However, Trump wasn't always a supporter of the app either and during his presidency tried to ban the addictive app citing national security concerns. 

Similar to Trump, Joe Biden's campaign joined TikTok in February and has 334,000 followers.

Trump has said he believes ByteDance is still a threat to national security but that blocking the app would anger young Americans and only serve to help Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. 

Trump was suspended from Facebook for two years following the Capitol Riot in 2021.

He has said that he considers 'Facebook to be an enemy of the people along with a lot of the media.' 

Last week, while waiting for the verdict in a back room at the courthouse, his eldest son, Don Jr., introduced his father to the platform. 

The pair of them appeared in a TikTok together as they discussed their next mean tweet. Don Jr. currently has 345,000 followers and also just started using the app last week.

Trump joining TikTok - and reaching potential younger voters - comes after the app might be banned altogether in the coming months if it doesn't divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance, after Biden signed a law in April forcing a sale.