Monica Lewinsky makes use of Taylor Swift meme to assault Invoice Clinton

Monica Lewinsky has jumped onto a Taylor Swift meme, utilizing it to take a swipe at Invoice Clinton and reference her notorious Nineteen Nineties scandal. 

The social activist turned internationally identified in 1998 when it emerged that the sitting US president Clinton, 50, had been having an affair together with her for 2 years, whereas she, aged 22, was working as a White Home intern. Clinton was later impeached because of the scandal. 

And now, Lewinsky, who now campaigns towards cyberbullying amongst different issues, has posted a meme that has been circulating on social media ever for the reason that launch of Taylor Swift’s album ‘The Tortured Poets Division’. 

Included on Swift’s eleventh album is the monitor ‘Who’s Afraid of Little Previous Me?’, and one lyric – “You wouldn’t final an hour within the asylum the place they raised me” – has been used as a launching pad for the meme in query. 

Folks on X have been posting the lyric alongside a picture that sarcastically represents the place that “raised” them, and lots of have commented that no person has nailed the idea higher than Lewinsky. 

The 50-year-old posted a picture of the White Home alongside the lyric, in a submit that has been seen 17 million occasions. 

you wouldn’t final an hour within the asylum the place they raised me. pic.twitter.com/hkhdRlBCkj

— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) April 25, 2024

‘The Tortured Poets Division’ turned the most-streamed album in at some point, and has now gone in at Quantity One within the UK with the largest opening week in seven years. 

This isn’t the primary time that Lewinsky has dipped her toe into the trendy pop world. In 2022, she appeared on Dua Lipa’s podcast At Your Service, the place she mentioned a spread of matters, together with girls’s rights and cyberbullying. 

In the identical 12 months, she referenced Beyoncé’s 2015 music ‘Partition’, on which Bey sings: “Oh, he so sexy, yeah he need to fuck / He popped all my buttons, he ripped my shirt / He Monica Lewinsky’d all on my robe.” 

After Beyoncé had altered the lyrics to her music ‘Heated’ to edit out an ableist slur, Lewinsky advised that maybe she may additionally change the lyrics to ‘Partition’. 

She had beforehand written for Vanity Fair in 2014: “Thanks, Beyoncé, but when we’re verbing, I believe you meant ‘Invoice Clinton’d all on my robe’.”