The U.S. Division of Homeland Safety has spent latest months posting a number of the most weird materials that’s ever come from an official U.S. authorities account. And now we will add “Fascist Pokémon” to the listing.
The official DHS account revealed a one-minute video on X and Instagram on Monday that opens with footage of explosions on the doorways of unseen victims. The Pokémon music begins, with the lyrics “I wanna be the easiest…” as viewers see American stormtroopers in fatigues strolling in sluggish movement.
The track continues as there are pictures of individuals with blurred faces being arrested in a montage that clearly seeks to glorify masked federal brokers. These brokers have been terrorizing native communities since President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second time period, together with final week, when ICE brokers reportedly used a 5-year-old autistic woman to lure her father out of a home.
It’s unknown at this level whether or not Nintendo gave DHS permission to make use of Pokémon music and pictures on this uncommon video, however that appears extraordinarily unlikely. Nintendo didn’t reply to questions on Tuesday morning.
Gotta Catch ‘Em All. pic.twitter.com/qCvflkJGmB
— Homeland Safety (@DHSgov) September 22, 2025
Social media customers had blended reactions to the brand new Pokémon video, with some praising Trump’s brutality. “Whoever is behind the social medias. Effectively achieved 🙌❤️😂,” one high-ranking remark reads.
Others had been trolling DHS proper again. The highest touch upon the Instagram video proper now reads, “Don’t overlook catch the entire individuals on the Epstein listing 😍 gotta catch all of them proper?” One other Instagram commenter replied with an animated GIF displaying the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein as a Pokémon and the phrases “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
President Trump was reportedly good mates with Epstein for 15 years. Regardless of preliminary guarantees from individuals like Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel that intensive paperwork on Epstein can be launched, they now declare there’s no Epstein listing. Epstein died in jail in 2019, although many individuals are skeptical of the official story that he killed himself.
In follow-up tweets, DHS has posted photos of individuals the company suggests had been caught for varied offenses, made to appear like Pokémon playing cards. The playing cards learn “worst of the worst” and embrace the topic’s identify, age, and nationality. A flag displaying the topic’s nation of origin seems behind their head. There are additionally stats which are typical for a Pokémon.
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Safety, has leaned into President Trump’s excessive rhetoric with regards to immigration. And that posturing has actually come by means of on social media, with DHS continuously posting aggressive messages on X utilizing music and pictures that don’t seem like formally licensed.
Again in July, DHS posted a video that makes use of a voiceover from The Batman (2022) together with a Bible quote to justify the company’s horrifying ways. One other video makes use of a track known as “God’s Gonna Reduce You Down” by Black Insurgent Motorbike Membership, which was featured within the Netflix collection A Man in Full starring Jeff Daniels. Once more, it’s unclear if DHS has sought permission to make use of these songs and film clips, however that appears extremely unlikely. The audio for the DHS video that makes use of “God’s Gonna Reduce You Down” is now not out there on Instagram, presumably over copyright points.
DHS additionally posted a video final week that makes use of a canopy of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and it additionally appears like audio from the unique track is integrated in some sort of remix. The DHS account can also be extraordinarily fond of images that seeks to invoke a sense of nostalgia for when America was extra patriarchal and white. The property of the late painter Thomas Kinkade, who died in 2012, posted an announcement about DHS’s unauthorized use of the portray “Morning Pledge.”
All of this disturbing content material appears supposed to strike concern into the nation. And there’s definitely purpose to be fearful when masked brokers use violence at such a scale. Peaceable protesters have repeatedly been attacked at ICE amenities, together with when Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh was injured within the metropolis of Broadview on Friday.
That is what it seems like when ICE violates our First Modification rights. pic.twitter.com/EneI3BAkPF
— Kat Abughazaleh (@KatAbughazaleh) September 19, 2025
Fifteen individuals have died in immigration detention since President Trump took workplace in January, in accordance with NPR. Ten of these deaths occurred from January to June, the very best price of deaths within the first six months of any 12 months on document. And so long as Trump is in workplace, it solely looks as if issues are going to worsen for essentially the most weak.
DHS didn’t instantly reply to questions on Tuesday morning. Gizmodo will replace this text if we hear again.
