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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Images: @whitehouse/TikTok

You’ve poured a bucket of ice water over your head and forced your entire family to learn the “Fate of Ophelia” dance. But are you strong enough, mentally and physically, to watch what the Trump White House is posting on TikTok?

The administration launched an account in August weeks before the president struck a deal to save the social-media app from a ban he started. The first post from the official account (not to be confused with the personal account Donald Trump mostly abandoned after the 2024 campaign) featured the president declaring, “I am your voice!”

So what does the Trump White House’s TikTok voice sound like several months in? There are lots of newsy video clips and memes with the “fellow kids” vibes you’d expect from any septuagenarian official’s social-media account. But there’s also some uniquely Trumpian content that’s truly hard to watch.

Below, I have compiled the worst of the @whitehouse feed. The posts fall into three categories: incompetently executed memes, straight-up-racist videos, and Trump thirst traps. How many can you watch — sound on, start to finish — before you have to tap out? Can you make it through the “sexy” Trump montage set to that Charli XCX “fall in love, again and again” song without pausing as a shudder of disgust rolls through your body? It took me three tries! Good luck!

Category 1: Infuriatingly Incompetent Memes

While Trump once declared, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!,” he is also desperate for the pop superstar’s approval. So it’s very on-brand for the White House feed to try to get in on the Life of a Showgirl TikTok trend. But while this sound usually accompanies people doing the dance from Swift’s latest video, the White House just posted a series of increasingly weird photos, culminating in the “Fate of America” … which is Trump pretending to work a shift at McDonald’s?

You know how the “What’s Up?”–“Beez in the Trap” trend is supposed to have two people lip-syncing back-to-back? Well, it turns out that’s pretty hard to do when the two people involved are rarely in the same place.

Here’s a great way to offend millennials: take a Mean Girls meme in vain.

“Rare aesthetic: Democrat Shutdown” could have worked, but half the pictures don’t make any sense. Sure, there are a few shots of Trump’s racist posts featuring Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero, but then we see … Democrats speaking to reporters? Shots of Congress in session? A protester showing their support for federal workers amid Trump’s DOGE cuts?

Category 2: Disgustingly Racist

Black-clad goons with masked and blurred faces are hunting down human beings like animals. Gotta catch ’em all, LOL!

Unlike the Pokémon video, the Wicked references don’t even track here. A snippet of Cynthia Erivo singing “Defying Gravity” plays over footage of ICE arresting people, and the text says, “Ahhh that deportation feeling …” The movie musical contains a whole song about “loathing,” but this account can’t even troll properly.

Category 3: Nauseatingly Romantic

An email from Jeffrey Epstein’s brother started an unfounded conspiracy theory about Trump and Bill Clinton. The White House did not specifically respond to rumors about a, uh, tryst between the two presidents. But the White House TikTok did suddenly start posting videos that aimed to highlight the heterosexual passion between the president and the First Lady.

This video suggests the 79-year-old president and his seldom-seen 55-year-old third wife are major relationship goals.

Here, we see the First Couple walking in slow motion to a song from the aggressively straight movie Top Gun.

This post shows why everyone needs to stop complaining about those Wuthering Heights trailers. No matter how badly Emerald Fennell butchers the Emily Brontë novel, it can’t be as heinously unwatchable as this.

Trump TikTok Challenge: Watch the Most Awful White House Posts

Trump TikTok Challenge: Watch the Most Awful White House Posts