According to Trend News monitoring, the official Twitter account of the U.S. Department of Education posted a viral video on X: overlaying the “Pinocchio Long Nose Counter” on a clip of an interview with teacher union president Randi Weingarten, implying that her comments on Trump’s education reform were “lies”. This is a longstanding contentious issue between the Trump camp and the teacher union, seen as an official-level direct mockery, leading to a rapid escalation of discussion.
As the video quickly spread, “Pinocchios” became a new internet slang term, and online platforms began producing a large number of long nose memes to mock politicians. The discussion spread to the Solana blockchain, with users launching a token named PINOCCHIO, resulting in 19 projects with the same name appearing within 24 hours, the mainstream consensus version having a 24-hour trading volume surge to $1.1M, reaching a peak market cap of 210k, and having 866 holders.
The enduring vitality of political memes has also brought continuous overflow heat to them—after all, “Pinocchio” has been a long-standing political meme in American politics for decades, and in the future, whenever politicians argue and accuse each other of lying, it will be repeatedly used.
