The White House wants you to laugh at its deportation memes The administration is using dark jokes, music videos and personal jabs to boost its immigration policy across social media. Not everyone thinks it’s funny.
White House officials say their digital strategy is designed to grab attention and show that the president is delivering on his immigration promises. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
By Drew Harwell The White House has posted immigrant arrest and deportation videos onto X with song lyrics like “ice, ice, baby” and “hey, hey, goodbye.” The Department of Homeland Security posted a meme on Instagram showing Uncle Sam urging Americans to report all “foreign invaders.”
And Vice President JD Vance, told he could do the “funniest thing ever” by deporting a fashion writer who had criticized his clothing choices, responded with a movie clip of Jack Nicholson, nodding and smiling.
The Trump administration is increasingly playing its policy of mass deportation for laughs, pushing memes and jokes about the nationwide immigration crackdown to millions of Americans online.
White House officials have said their digital strategy is designed to show that President Donald Trump is delivering on his immigration promises in an entertaining, attention-grabbing way. He now posts that ICE should concentrate on deporting the US citizen illegal children.