Even President Donald Trump’s beloved manosphere has had sufficient of his bullshit.
After the Division of Homeland Safety used comic Theo Von in one other certainly one of its deportation movies, he made the daring transfer of distancing himself from the administration that has traditionally been in any other case pleasant to him.
“Heard you got deported, dude,” the now-deleted ICE video started, exhibiting a beforehand recorded video the Trump administration took out of context.
Smirking, Von mentioned, “Bye.”
Theo Von attends President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
The video then featured quotes of Von’s clipped along with movies of immigrants being handcuffed and boarded on airplanes, bragging concerning the alleged quantity deportations.
However Von, who has beforehand spoken out towards the inhumane nature of Trump’s deportations, had his personal response to the publish.
“Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this,” he wrote on X. “I know you know my address so send a check. And please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos. When it comes to immigration my thoughts and heart are alot [sic] more nuanced than this video allows. Bye!”
Regardless of getting a golden ticket to Trump’s inauguration and even flying with Trump to the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, even Von acknowledges the inhumane nature of Trump’s immigration strategy.
Different comedians and supporters of Trump, like podcaster Joe Rogan, have known as out ICE’s egregious therapy of immigrants. Equally, this isn’t the primary time DHS has been met with cease-and-desist calls for.
In July, rock band Black Insurgent Bike Membership demanded DHS take away a video utilizing their recording of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.”
However as an alternative of simply eradicating the video, during which DHS claims that deporting immigrants is a calling from God, it solely eliminated the audio from the clip.
Immigration brokers switch a whole bunch of Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador’s notoriously violent CECOT jail.
Later that month, Zoe Lister, the voice actor behind the viral “Jet2 Holiday” ad-turned-meme, mentioned that she felt “sick” concerning the White Home’s use of her voice in a deportation video. She added that she would by no means condone using the advert to boast “Trump and his abhorrent policies.”
Jay-Z had the same difficulty when DHS used his 2003 track “Public Service Announcement” in an ICE recruitment marketing campaign. Like Black Insurgent Bike Membership’s video, DHS merely eliminated the audio on Instagram and stored the video up.
Regardless of this, the Trump workforce’s violent, dehumanizing immigration messaging has persevered— from making ASMR movies of immigrants in shackles to posting their mug photographs on the White Home garden. And in an try to Disney-fy ICE services rife with abuse, the Trump administration has provide you with names like “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Speedway Slammer.”
And whereas Trump’s extra disillusioned followers could discover the movies and lighthearted cover-ups amusing, this flippant strategy to immigration is costing him a few of his most loyal supporters.
