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Tim Miller: We’re Being Governed by 12-Year-Olds

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller takes on our “everyone is twelve now” government mentality as the Trump administration posts immature content about former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, as well as Joe Biden’s son Hunter, on the official White House webpage, and using MGMT songs without permission with TikTok edit styles to glorify ICE’s violent attacks on protesters.

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0:00.0

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0:24.7

House that works for him pretty much also is acting like they are 12. I wanted to do a little

0:30.1

video on this this Saturday, putting together a couple of the recent trolls that the White

0:34.0

House has done. It is an homage to Patrick Cosmos, who had one of the hot

0:39.4

social media posts of the moment going around, which goes like this, working on a new unified

0:44.4

theory of American reality, I'm calling everyone is 12 now. And I'm not sure if everyone is 12 now,

0:50.4

but our White House surely is. And I don't know about you. I guess some people want to have a 12-year-old in the White House. We did the video today, which you have to go watch with Harry Sisson, who is the young Democratic influencer that Trump posts a video of himself shitting on Harry while he was protesting, because that's what the president

1:11.8

does now instead of honoring the First Amendment and people want to speak out. He does AI defecations

1:17.1

on people who are just peacefully protesting, exercising their fundamental American First Amendment,

1:22.3

right? So we talked to Harry about this over there and you should go check that out.

1:27.0

But it isn't just the AI video of Harry, right?

1:32.2

Trump has now done a number of things I want to go through.

1:35.0

There are the DHS videos that we've talked about, and now he's updated the White House website.

1:39.7

And before I show you this, I just want to say, just bluntly, I like a sense of humor. I want to have

1:46.7

a president that has a sense of humor. Both Bush and Obama had great senses of humor.

1:51.1

Really, both of them made me laugh at time to time. There's nothing wrong with Josh and around

1:55.3

showing that you're a human. So I want leaders that are judicious, but also self-aware enough that they can make and take a joke.

2:04.5

That's now what we're getting here.

2:06.1

We're getting 12-year-olds.

2:07.9

And I don't want a 12-year-old running the country.

2:12.4

Some people do.

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