Bill Nye the Science Guy has teamed up with President Joe Biden in a TikTok video to promote the president's $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, but it has left social media users cringing.
Nye, 66, along with President Biden, referred to as 'Amtrak Joe,' highlight the effects of the infrastructure bill on the economy to tackle climate change while both are maskless in an 82-second video.
'The House of Representatives passed it recently. That's for our roads, our power lines, our water pipes, to upgrade them and improve them so we can have a better infrastructure,' Nye says after making an introductory joke that he is indeed a 'bill', due to his first name being William, but not the infrastructure bill.
'Next would be for addressing climate change, for providing people with the means to weatherize their houses and making them more resilient to climate change, and establish a civilian climate core,' Nye adds.
'This would be something for people of all ges to get good union jobs here in the United States so we can working together, build back better' - using a phrase that President Biden has repeatedly used to describe his infrastructure bill.
President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly urged Americans to mask up, was seen throughout the entire video flouting face-covering rules, like he did in Nantucket Saturday.
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Billy Nye, 66 (left), who is famously referred to as 'the Science Guy' to children since the 1990s, appeared in a TikTok video to promote the recently-passed bipartisan and trillion dollar infrastructure bill with President Biden, 79, who is referred to as 'Amtrak Joe.'
President Biden then appears in the video, telling Nye: 'you're using my lines here,' referring to his administration's three-part Build Back Better plan to 'rescue, recover and rebuild the country.'
Near the end, Nye, who is standing next to Biden, refers to infrastructure as 'cool' before they both share an awkward shoulder-to-fist bump.
And while it was promoted by his
