Trump’s DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme

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

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

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

Microsoft declined to remark astir the DHS’s post, and didn’t instantly respond to a petition for remark astir the White House’s and GameStop’s posts. Nintendo, successful effect to Pokémon being associated with Trump’s wide deportation campaign, antecedently said successful a connection to The Daily Beast that “our institution was not progressive successful the instauration oregon organisation of this content, and support was not granted for the usage of our intelligence property.”