It looks more like out of touch and unprepared Washington apparatchiks being humiliated by the subsidiary of 1 company.
If a lot of these clips go on Tiktok as well as other social media, it'll significantly hurt the perception of competence among American leaders.
I would not be surprised if the white house will simply choose to back down and censor the fact that such an event even happened to begin with. Just like when Trump tried to ban Tiktok, the whole event was memory holed and the officials that participated were publicly derided as "trumpist" and "radical conservatives" and shoved to the back by the government.
The America branch of Bytedance are very smart, they use words to play those trust fund baby apparatchiks like a fiddle, getting them to expose their lack of worldly knowledge and ugly conservative views. This is not an easy battle for the US regime because many young Americans are tech savvy and have wide knowledge, courtesy of relatively unmoderated Internet access.
