The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThe Trump administration has a new propaganda strategy: turning deportations into one big meme.The catchy jingle advertising low-cost holidays on Jet2, a budget British airline, has been the viral meme of summer 2025. Its ubiquity was clearly not lost on the Department of Homeland Security’s communications team. Late last month, DHS published a video to its social accounts that incorporated the “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” tune alongside footage of ICE detainees in handcuffs boarding a deportation plane. The post was captioned: “When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation. Nothing beats it!”To many of the administration’s supporters, who responded to the Jet2 holiday post with crying-laughing emojis and American…
