Did Barack Obama spend 310 days, working from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the White House running the country in 2024? No, that's not true: The meme spreading that claim originated on a Facebook page with a satire disclaimer and a warning that all the contents of the page are made up. The owner of the page is known for tricking conservatives into liking and sharing made up content. There is no evidence Obama "logged into the West Wing on 310 out of 365 days in 2024," as claimed.
The claim originated in a post (archived here) published by the America - Love It Or Leave It account on Facebook on July 7, 2025, with the caption "'Joe time.' He was running the country and charging millions as a 'consultant' to do it." The meme read:
Barack Obama logged into the West Wing on 310 out of 365 days in 2024.
His entry is listed as 'Joe Time.'
His 'Joe Time' lasted from 8 AM until 4 PM every day.
Looks like we know who was actually running the country.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: screenshot of Facebook by Lead Stories)
The account that shared the meme is the creation of Christopher Blair, a self-professed liberal from Maine, who for years has run networks of websites set up to troll conservatives with made-up news items in order to get them to share his posts. He uses the nickname "Busta Troll." A 2018 BBC profile called Blair "the Godfather of fake news," describing him as "one of the world's most prolific writers of disinformation."
His websites usually have multiple satire disclaimers and the stories very often contain obvious hints they are not real, like category names indicating they are fiction, links to "sources" that instead go to funny or offensive images or an "S for Satire" logo added to the images used as illustration. Another telltale sign is the name "Art Tubolls" (anagram for "Busta Troll") for characters in the stories. Blair also frequently pays homage to two of his friends who passed away by using their names ("Joe Barron" and "Sandy Batt") in stories.
Blair's stories have been widely copied by spammy, foreign website networks trying to make a buck by spamming American conservatives with clickbait headlines.
Here you can find some of the many, many stories from Blair's websites Lead Stories debunked over the years.
