<p>Jared Schmeck became an instant Twitter-trend when he ended a Christmas phone call with President Joe Biden by saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Brandon&#8221; — a phrase that has been used both as a euphemism for the phrase &#8220;f*** Joe Biden&#8221; and as a critique of legacy media for running cover for the Biden administration.</p>
<p>Schmeck, a former police officer and father of four from Oregon, ended the call by saying, &#8220;Merry Christmas &#8230; and let&#8217;s go Brandon!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://dailywire.com/news/lets-go-brandon-kids-dad-trolls-biden-during-santa-tracker-call-and-biden-responds/">Biden responded</a>, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Brandon I agree.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Joe and Jill Biden took calls from the NORAD Tracks Santa program and a dad ended the call by saying, &#8220;Merry Christmas, and let&#8217;s go Brandon.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go Brandon, I agree,&#8221; Biden replied. <a href="https://t.co/K4q0jIB6ww">pic.twitter.com/K4q0jIB6ww</a></p>
<p>— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKyleMorris/status/1474447834208428036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Schmeck told <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2021/12/oregon-father-of-four-who-told-president-biden-lets-go-brandon-on-christmas-eve-call-said-he-meant-it-in-jest.html">The Oregonian/Oregon Live</a> that he has received threats since making the comment, but says that he meant no ill will against the president and doesn&#8217;t even dislike him — he only meant to voice his frustrations in what he perceived as a &#8220;joking manner.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job. I mean no disrespect to him,&#8221; Schmeck said. He told the outlet that he did not think of himself as a &#8220;Trumper,&#8221; instead describing himself as a &#8220;free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also said that the opportunity to speak to President Biden directly was unexpected — he and his family have called the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-santa-colonel-how-one-air-force-officer-turned-a-sears-ad-typo-into-a-holiday-tradition/">NORAD Santa Tracker</a> hotline every <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/whats-merry-about-all-this-read-the-letter-general-anthony-mcauliffe-sent-his-exhausted-surrounded-men-at-the-battle-of-the-bulge/">Christmas Eve</a> for years, and he had expected the call to be automated and had not expected it to be livestreamed.</p>
<p>&#8220;We just waited on hold and then they answered. And I thought, ‘wow, this is real,'&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Immediately after the call, Schmeck&#8217;s wife reportedly outed him on Instagram, saying, &#8220;My husband may or may not have just told joe and jill Biden ‘let’s go Brandon’ on the phone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schmeck also posted his own video of the call, with President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on speaker, on his own YouTube channel:</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="We talked to President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve! #letsgobrandon" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F1ulpuUKI4Q?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2021/12/oregon-father-of-four-who-told-president-biden-lets-go-brandon-on-christmas-eve-call-said-he-meant-it-in-jest.html">OregonLive reported</a> that Schmeck said he&#8217;s been receiving &#8220;vague but threatening phone calls&#8221; since the phone call:</p>
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<p id="J32HZ3BHORANBKXMTPUOEP246I" class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left"><em>Schmeck called his remark a “joke,” and a reflection of his frustration with Biden’s policies, including the federal vaccine mandates, inflation and global supply chain problems that have caused shortages in consumer products.</em></p>
<p><em>“And now I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech,” Schmeck said, adding that he’s been receiving some vague but threatening phone calls since the Santa tracker call.</em></p>
<p><em>“I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Lets go Brandon,’ but I’m not that simple minded, no matter how I feel about him,” the 35-year-old father said Christmas morning. “He seems likes he’s a cordial guy. There’s no animosity or anything like that. It was merely just an innocent jest to also express my God-given right to express my frustrations in a joking manner&#8230;I love him just like I love any other brother or sister.”</em></p>
<p id="OD7OALMVKVC2BCMFBWDHTDX2VY" class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left"><em>He went on to say he “stood 100% behind what I did and what I said.”</em></p>
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