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Joe Biden's campaign team have been caught out making an embarrassing mistake in an attack on Donald Trump over his dismissal of the NFL as 'boring' with the social media post showing the President holding an Australian football.
The post on Threads was timed to coincide with Thursday night's NFL draft and featured clips of Trump calling football 'boring as hell' and saying 'nobody cares' about the country's most popular sport.
That footage is contrasted with a series of photos of Biden welcoming the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs to the White House, receiving a ball with his name on it from the Air Force team - and lastly, posing with a red football in his hands.
The attack finishes with the words, 'Make the right pick in November.'
The Biden Harris campaign post contrasts vision of Trump blasting the NFL with images of the President meeting the Super Bowl champion Kansas Chiefs (pictured)
However, it also ends with the above shot of Biden holding an Australian Rules football - which looks nothing like the pigskin used in the American game
The ball in the last image is used in Australian Rules football and the photo was taken when the commander in chief watched a game down under in July 2016, when he was still vice-president.
Footballs used in the sport's top competition, the Australian Football League (AFL) look nothing like those found in the NFL.
In addition to the completely different colour, they are noticeably larger, and feature rounded ends as opposed to the American balls' pointy shape.
Trump has been vocal in his criticism of the state of the NFL and the post appears to refer to remarks he made at a campaign rally in Nevada in September 2020, on the first Sunday of that football season.
'Football's boring as hell. It's just not the same, right?' he told the crowd in Henderson, saying that while Americans used to
