Daily Caller Retracts Article On White House Easter Egg Rules That Whipped Up MAGA

A popular conservative website has retracted an article that falsely blamed President Joe Biden for instituting a policy against religious-themed Easter eggs at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

On Tuesday, the Daily Caller retracted an article that began, “The Biden administration banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 ‘Celebrating National Guard Families’ art contest.”

Although the ban against religious imagery goes back to the Carter administration and was in effect during the Trump administration, the Daily Caller ignored that pesky little detail in order to give readers a MAGA opportunity to gripe and moan about a grievance that didn’t exist.

As a result, many conservatives attempted to make hay off the story, even though it was misleading, especially since many also falsely accused Biden of purposely declaring March 31 to be Trans Day of Visibility as a way to insult Christians.

And, yes, they ignored the minor detail that Trans Day of Visibility has been celebrated on the last day of March for the last decade.

For instance, Karoline Leavitt, the Trump presidential campaign’s national press secretary, released a statement saying that the policy regarding religious eggs and the fact that Easter fell on Trans Day of Visibility were “just two more examples of the Biden Administration’s years-long assault on the Christian faith.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) also tried to milk the fake controversy by releasing a post on social media in which he claimed that “banning sacred truth and tradition — while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as ‘Transgender Day’ — is outrageous and abhorrent.”

But though the Daily Caller’s story was catnip for low-information voters