Meme politics: White House embraces aggressive alt-right online culture

Ghibli-Style Images To Memes: White House Embraces Alt-Right Online Culture

Posting for provocation's sake has long been the province of internet antagonists and the alt-right, but these days, even the official White House X account is embracing the communications strategy that often celebrates others' suffering.

Meme politics: White House embraces aggressive alt-right online culture

Posting for provocation's sake has long been the province of internet antagonists and the alt-right, but these days, even the official White House X account is embracing the communications strategy that often celebrates others' suffering.

There's a new trend in Trump's meme warfare

Trump's cruel memes of migrants help him justify his dehumanization of them and violation of their rights through his deportation program.

Official profiles of the US Executive Branch adopted a provocative and offensive tone on social media during the Trump administration Since the beginning of Donald Trump's second term as President of the United States, the White House, headquarters of the American Executive, has adopted provocative and offensive communication methods widely used by the extreme right. Recently, his official account on X commemorated the arrest of an alleged crimi…

Getting The Stomach For Deportations

The White House last week released a Studio Ghibli-edit of a migrant arrest. The migrant being mocked was a morbidly obese drug dealer who cried during her arrest. The anime meme instantly drew fury. Critics claimed it was dehumanizing and downright evil. Even some right-wingers felt it was cruel and bad optics.The backlash against the meme is part of a media campaign to sour the public on Trump’s immigration policy. Reporters have turned a few …

A Sprouting of 32 Fresh Memes

It is, in one hemisphere of the world anyway, one of the most hopeful times of the year. Spring has finally sprung, and with it has come a fresh burst of energy to improve on all of the things that seem to need improving. Of course, it often doesn't work out that way and any betterment that is achieved is most likely going to be imperfect. That can't be something that we let discourage us, though, as otherwise we won't get anything done at all. …