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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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From: bustersmith10/30/2025 10:45:33 AM
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Misleading the Flock is allowed as long as they keep feeding from the trough of bull shit...

Trump White House Defends Misleading DHS Propaganda Because They Are ‘Banger Memes’

The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly posted misleading, mislabeled, and in at least one case digitally altered footage to promote President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda — an aggressive messaging strategy defended by the White House as engaging “banger memes,” according to a detailed Washington Post investigation published this week.

The Post identified at least six DHS-produced videos over the last three months that misrepresented where and when scenes were filmed. The most striking example was an August montage touting DHS’s supposed success in securing Washington, D.C. It featured dramatic clips of federal agents battling what one official called a “battle for the soul of our nation,” but the footage was neither recent nor from the nation’s capital. Instead, significant portions were shot months earlier in Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, and even off the coast of Nantucket, roughly 400 miles from Washington.

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A DHS spokesperson did not dispute the inaccuracies. The White House also declined to offer corrections; instead, spokesperson Abigail Jackson said the administration would continue highlighting its successes via “engaging content and banger memes,” the Post reported.

The investigation found a broader pattern of deceptive editing. In one case, footage promoted as showing “Antifa terrorists” attacking federal facilities in Portland was actually filmed outside an ICE building in Broadview, Illinois — 1,700 miles away. The video also cropped out the watermark of the journalist who recorded it. Another DHS clip boasting about a federal surge into Memphis used images from the same Illinois facility, with no indication that the visuals were recorded in a different state.

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Read more: mediaite.com
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