A horrible consequence of the historical mistake that is Twitter, in addition to the Nazis and @realDonaldTrump, is that corporate brands feel the need to tweet in a voice they think will appeal to the youths. It’s that thinking that led to this little piece of comedy writing from Chase Bank, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, on Monday:

For those who don’t speak millennial, what the Chase social-media team—which, ironically, probably includes a fair number of people born between 1981 and 1996—was trying to do here was appear young and hip by crafting a “dialogue tweet” about how people not born in an era when you could buy a house on a waiter’s salary could have tons of money in the bank if only they had an ounce of financial discipline. It‘s like the guy who claims the only reason young people today are renters is because they buy too much avocado toast, except it’s worse because it’s trying to sound like a millennial, despite coming from a bank that made $109 billion in revenue last year. Which received a $12 billion taxpayer bailout in 2008. And charges overdraft fees as high as $34. And paid billions in fines in part for foreclosing on customers’ homes by using defective or fraudulent documents. And whose C.E.O. couldn’t come up with an answer for how an average teller working in Irvine, California, could afford to pay for rent, utilities, food, commuting, and childcare.

Unsurprisingly, the tweet was swiftly deleted and replaced with a non-apology, but not before being savaged on the Internet by, among others, lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Katie Porter:

The disjointed reality of the economy—in which banks like JPMorgan are making quarterly profits of $9.2 billion and jobs and stock-market numbers are strong, but much of the country feels like it isn’t working for them—was reflected in a survey from The Washington Post and ABC News published on Monday. According to the poll, 8 in 10 Democrats, more than 6 in 10 independents, and nearly one third of Republicans believe “the country’s economic system gives an advantage to those already in power,” rather than all Americans. It’s being felt in Wisconsin, where dairy farms are on the edge of extinction thanks to Trump’s trade war, and where Foxconn got $4 billion in tax subsidies in exchange for not building a factory. In Ohio, a battleground state that voted for Trump in 2016, locals have expressed (reasonable!) frustration with the fact that profitable corporate juggernauts often pay nothing in taxes, a phenomenon that doubled thanks to Trump’s tax plan. To top it all off, the White House has denied overtime pay to millions of workers and killed a rule that said brokers had to, wait for it, act in the best interest of their clients.

Democratic candidates for president, like Warren and Bernie Sanders, have already been campaigning on the notion that our so-called populist president has not actually improved the economy all that much for ordinary people. But it’s probably something the administration should consider, too, before insisting the Trump has been a boon for everyone’s bottom line. Things might look rosy from the perspective of a company like JPMorgan whose C.E.O. made $31 million last year, but if the reaction to Chase’s glib tweet is any indication, real people in the real world aren’t feeling quite so flush.