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A January 20 2021 image of Bernie Sanders sitting (with mittens) at United States President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony went instantly viral as a meme, and among responses was a since-deleted tweet labeled “Still the best picture of # Berniesanders sitting though” and purportedly depicting a young Sanders at a protest for racial justice:
On Facebook, screenshots of the deleted tweet above circulated widely (as seen in a search for images):
Context: Bernie Sanders, Sitting in a Chair, Wearing Mittens
All of social media was rapidly inundated in variations of Bernie Sanders memes on and after January 20 2021. Internet encyclopedia Know Your Meme explained: