Kim Kardashian has been accused of misunderstanding the midterm elections, after the reality star posted a message supporting Barack Obama on Twitter and Instagram.
On Monday night, Kim posted a cartoon image of herself with President Obama, writing: 'I’m standing w Obama in the midterm election 2morrow!' despite him not being up for re-election.
Kim was instantly mocked for the post, with Twitter users explaining that Obama is clearly not on the ballot for Tuesday's midterms.
Some users labelled Kim an 'airhead' while another called her a 'useless bimbo' as they assumed Kim was encouraging her Twitter followers to vote for the President.
The question is... Is Obama standing with Kim?
However, others pointed out that perhaps Kim's tweet meant she was 'standing' with Obama in voting along Democratic party lines (despite the fact that in 2002 she appeared to back Republican hopeful Rick Santorum).
Either way, Kim did not respond to her critics, or clarify the assumption that she had misunderstood the midterms.
Instead, on Tuesday she encouraged her 25 million followers: 'Today is the day! Go out and vote!'.
In 2013, Obama famous criticized Kim and her husband Kanye West as 'bad influences'.
On a visit to Amazon's warehouses in Tennessee, Obama spoke about how children and teenagers are exposed to different media stories compared to when he was young.
'The American dream involved some pretty basic stuff, a good job where you felt some security, a good education. People felt if they worked hard they could get there,' he said.
'I don't think people went around saying to themselves, "I need to have a 10,000-square-foot house".
'I think there has also been a shift in culture. We weren't exposed to the things we didn't have in the same way that kids these days are."
He added: 'There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Kids weren't monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing or where Kanye West was going on vacation and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success."
Obama also made another famous dig at Kanye back in 2009, after he called him a 'jackass' for interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the VMAs.
Culled from Daily Mail UK
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