Lauren Boebert’s SOTU Tweet Gets Roasted

Elevate your hand in case you’re sufficiently old to recollect who was president in 2020, when colleges had been closed down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was torn aside on Twitter after she appeared to neglect that element in a tweet about President Joe Biden’s State of the Union tackle on Tuesday.

“Hey Joe, YOU CLOSED THEM!” she tweeted, citing a line from Biden’s speech wherein he mentioned: “Within the midst of the COVID disaster, when colleges had been closed and we had been shutting down all the pieces, let’s acknowledge how far we got here within the battle in opposition to the pandemic itself.”

A be aware appeared under the tweet, declaring that readers had “added context they thought individuals may wish to know.”

It included hyperlinks to 2 articles: One in regards to the shutdown of Okay-12 colleges within the spring of 2020, when Donald Trump was president, and a second noting that Trump mentioned choices about faculty closures can be as much as the governors of every state.

Critics didn’t maintain again with “further context” in retweets and replies: