Trump’s Dhs Is Recruiting Ice Officers With A Halo Meme

After utilizing nan original Pokémon taxable opus in a montage of ICE raids, nan Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is utilizing different celebrated video crippled franchise to beforehand itself connected societal media: Halo. This morning, nan DHS posted an image featuring Halo characters, a Warthog conveyance from nan games, and nan matter “DESTROY THE FLOOD” and a nexus to ICE’s recruitment website. The DHS captioned the post, “finishing this fight.”

Finishing this fight. pic.twitter.com/6Ezq9NUqMq

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 27, 2025

Like pinch its Pokémon-themed post, which was captioned, “Gotta Catch ‘Em All,” nan DHS’s Halo station implicitly compares immigrants to creatures from video games — this time, nan parasitic alien type called nan Flood. 

The DHS’s station was nan culmination of a societal media speech betwixt nan Trump management and video crippled retailer GameStop, based connected a joke that Trump had overseen nan end of nan “console wars” acknowledgment to nan announcement of nan Halo: Combat Evolved remake for PlayStation adjacent year. GameStop, whose CEO and president Ryan Cohen has been a vocal protagonist of Trump, quoted nan joke pinch a image of Trump shaking hands pinch Halo protagonist Master Chief. The White House followed up pinch an image of Trump successful a suit of armor akin to Master Chief’s, and GameStop responded pinch its ain photoshopped Master Chief Trump, adding a meme-ified type of Vice President JD Vance’s caput swapped onto what looks to beryllium nan feminine anthropomorphic AI Cortana.

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— GameStop (@gamestop) October 27, 2025

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— GameStop (@gamestop) October 27, 2025

Microsoft declined to remark astir nan DHS’s post, and didn’t instantly respond to a petition for remark astir nan White House’s and GameStop’s posts. The Pokémon Company International, successful consequence to Pokémon being associated pinch Trump’s wide deportation campaign, antecedently said successful a connection to The Daily Beast that “our institution was not progressive successful nan creation aliases distribution of this content, and support was not granted for nan usage of our intelligence property.”

Correction, October 27th: The Pokémon Company International provided nan connection to The Daily Beast, not Nintendo, arsenic we primitively stated.