Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
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· Oct 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
On Monday morning, the Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. This administration is no stranger to appropriating pop culture for its propaganda, but something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard.
Over the weekend, the Trump administration shared AI-generated Halo memes across its social media accounts. This culminated in the official Department of Homeland Security accounts sharing an image of dudes in Spartan armor riding a Warthog under the words “DESTROY THE FLOOD JOIN.ICE.GOV.” It was this image, in particular, that got in people’s heads.
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