At the end of one call, a parent who gave his name as Jared said, “Merry Christmas and Let’s go Brandon.”“Let’s go Brandon, I agree,” a relaxed Biden responded, before asking Jared if he was in Oregon. Much about the Christmas Eve exchange was not immediately clear, including what the caller intended, why Biden repeated the slogan and whether either knew the origin of the phrase. The slogan has become popular among supporters of Donald Trump, the former US president who caused a social media storm during his own Christmas Eve phone call with children in 2018. Brandon Brown himself has expressed displeasure at the appropriation of his name for an anti-Biden slogan. “I don’t want to be the substitute for a cuss word,” he recently told The New York Times.

Source: The Guardian December 25, 2021 16:52 UTC