--- title: Bernie Sanders, the Koch Brothers Have Halloween Twitter Beef description: Bernie Sanders wasted no time in responding to a picture of one of the Koch brothers dressed as Darth Vader with a picture of his own. canonical: https://time.com/4552214/koch-bernie-sanders-twitter-star-wars/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-31T21:27:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:13.633Z og:title: Bernie Sanders and the Koch Brothers Are Having a Star Wars Beef og:description: Bernie maybe just started a Star War with Charles Koch og:url: https://time.com/4552214/koch-bernie-sanders-twitter-star-wars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bernie Sanders and the Koch Brothers Are Having a Star Wars Beef twitter:description: Bernie maybe just started a Star War with Charles Koch twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bernie Sanders and the Koch Brothers Are Having a Halloween Twitter Beef  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 31, 2016 9:27 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 31, 2016 9:27 PM UTC Today in [unlikely Twitter beefs](http://time.com/4312495/obamas-royals-twitter-invictus-games/) between politicians who may not be responsible for their own Twitter accounts, [Senator Bernie Sanders](http://time.com/4292589/bernie-sanders-time-100-poll-winner/), [representative of birds](http://time.com/4272885/bernie-sanders-bird-podium/) and [bros](http://time.com/4339865/bernie-sanders-supporters-violence/), criticized [the Koch brothers](http://time.com/4432432/koch-brothers-voter-data/) with a combative tweet featuring a photoshopped picture. The incident started out innocently enough when the Twitter account for Koch Industries tweeted out a photo of [Charles Koch](http://time.com/4306258/charles-koch-for-hillary-clinton/) at his desk dressed up as the _Star Wars_ villain Darth Vader for Halloween. The account captioned it “When you’re the only one in the office in a costume this morning. [#HappyHalloween](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HappyHalloween).” > [](https://twitter.com/Koch%5FIndustries/status/793115423361363968) With that, Bernie Sanders possibly expressed how he really felt about Charles Koch and Koch Industries and this Halloween costume choice by responding with a _Star Wars_\-themed photo of his own and a fairly straightforward tweet that escalated things quickly. > [](https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/793152972322697216) This is another example of pop culture [penetrating politics](http://time.com/4551438/harry-potter-donald-trump-voldermort-hillary-clinton-hermione/), this time _Star Wars_\-style. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4552214/koch-bernie-sanders-twitter-star-wars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4552214/koch-bernie-sanders-twitter-star-wars/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders and the Koch Brothers Are Having a Halloween Twitter Beef","datePublished":"2016-10-31T21:27:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:13.633Z","description":"Bernie takes on the Koch brothers this Halloween","url":"https://time.com/4552214/koch-bernie-sanders-twitter-star-wars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","politics","twitter","Bernie Sanders","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4552214/koch-bernie-sanders-twitter-star-wars/","name":"Bernie Sanders and the Koch Brothers Are Having a Halloween Twitter Beef"}}]}] ```