The Trump administration is taking its social media assaults on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White Home and quite a few different authorities businesses becoming a member of Bluesky on Friday.

In its first publish, the brand new White Home account uploaded a spotlight reel of Trump footage and memes, together with the message, “What’s up, Bluesky? We thought you may’ve missed a few of our best hits, so we put this collectively for you.”

Different authorities businesses, together with the Division of Homeland Safety, the Division of Commerce, the Division of Transportation, the Division of the Inside, the Division of Well being and Human Companies, the Division of State, the Division of Battle, and the Division of Transportation all appeared to comply with the White Home by creating new Bluesky accounts, and all of them shortly posted messages attacking Democrats over the continuing authorities shutdown.

“We heard this can be a excellent place to have an open and trustworthy dialogue, so we’re right here to speak about how the Democrat shutdown is undermining our nation on the world stage,” wrote the Division of State. (Authorized specialists have recommended that comparable statements from authorities businesses possible violate the Hatch Act.)

The messages had been typically written in a cheerful, trolling tone, suggesting that the administration’s social media groups had been anticipating and even hoping for a unfavorable response on a social community that’s extensively often called a left-leaning different to Elon Musk’s X. And Bluesky customers delivered, with many responses to the preliminary White Home publish mentioning Trump’s relationship with notorious intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“The rationale they’re coming after this place is as a result of they will’t management the individuals on it and it drives them nuts,” wrote The Onion CEO Ben Collins.

On the identical time, many well-liked Bluesky accounts urged their followers to merely “block and transfer on,” with comic Paul F Tomkins declaring that it’s “Weirdly enjoyable to dam the White Home.”

Lower than 48 hours after becoming a member of, the White Home has already turn into one of the blocked accounts on Bluesky. In keeping with ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats, the White Home account is blocked by round 91,000 accounts, whereas being adopted by solely 10,000. The one account that’s been blocked by extra Bluesky customers belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined again in June. 

Whereas the varied new authorities accounts hadn’t fairly reached these heights by Sunday morning, they accounted for all the prime 5 most blocked accounts within the final 24 hours. And different right-wing accounts gave the impression to be boasting about following the Trump administration to Bluesky and getting extensively blocked.