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In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night
The official White House account posted this: the President wearing a Green Lantern ring, building a border wall out of green light, then a factory, then an air force.
The caption they wrote under it is the Green Lantern oath, in full. Here it is, read out: "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power, Green Lantern's light."
One footnote. The ring runs on willpower, and the classic version had exactly one famous weakness: it did not work on anything yellow. Later retconned, but it held for most of the character's run.
The oath here is our own recording, not audio from any Green Lantern film or series. The pictures are the White House's, 7 September 2026, public domain. Green Lantern is a DC Comics character.
THE SOURCE — `NkoJLn2fv-k`, The White House, PUBLIC DOMAIN
27.04s, uploaded 2026-09-07. 8,290 views / 1,017 likes at 5.3h (1,569 views/hour, vs 176–516/h across the channel's other recent shorts — 3-9x their rate, and the highest like ratio on the board at 12.3%).
THE SOURCE CARRIES NO SPEECH. ElevenLabs Scribe over the full 27s returns a single token: [outro jingle]. It is music only. This is load-bearing for the oath variant (greenlantern-oath-2026-09-07): there was no rights-clean spoken oath to lift, which is why ours is a recording of our own.
THE FOOTNOTE (the joke, and it is sourceable)
Hence the on-screen wording: "LATER RETCONNED. STILL TRUE FOR MOST OF THE CHARACTER'S RUN." Do not state it as currently true without that qualifier.
VARIANT NOTE — the oath is OUR recording
Read by ElevenLabs voice george (tempo 0.94, stability 0.30), deliberately distinct from the house narrator so it reads as a quotation. It is NOT lifted from any Green Lantern film, series or game: those recordings are Warner Bros. copyright, are not public domain, and are heavily fingerprinted by Content ID. The precedent is the Bartiromo build, which dropped a C-SPAN upload from picture AND audio over a weaker concern than this.
What the reel says
Narration as scripted and voiced.
The White House posted this today. That is the president wearing a Green Lantern ring
The caption they wrote under it is the Green Lantern oath, all of it word for word
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power, Green Lantern's light
The ring runs on willpower, and the classic version had exactly one weakness. It did not work on anything yellow
