The Daily Beast reports:
The official White House X account on Thursday posted its most bizarre meme to date: a Studio Ghibli-style AI cartoon of an ICE officer handcuffing a crying woman. The stout animated agent stands in front of an American flag while placing the restraints, and the woman is making a distressed expression.
The caricature aims to mock Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant who was arrested by ICE on the basis of illegal reentry. The White House seemed to scoff at the woman’s anguish, adding “She wept when taken into custody (picture attached).”
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— azow (@azow) March 28, 2025
It’s one thing to go after criminals, it’s another to make a show of and delight in the sadness and suffering of others. You’re sociopaths and you belong in prison.
— Elite E Man (@Eman856) March 27, 2025
I didn’t serve my county for this appalling, third world, bullshit.
This is disgusting. You’re monsters. @SecRubio @POTUS— Labrys7
(@Labrys7) March 27, 2025
Using Hayao Miyazaki’s art style to portray the sadness of someone in this position goes against everything it stands for—especially the idea of ambiguity in both good and evil people. You can’t look at this picture or individual in a black-and-white sense; you have to see the…
— Frank Lutu (@Itsfranksaga) March 27, 2025
— Sandro Mairata (@smairata) March 28, 2025
This is fucking disgusting behavior by the White House. It’s low, it’s pathetic, it’s inhumane, it’s everything the President shows us he is every day. This isn’t American, and it certainly isn’t Christian.
— Mike (@simala_mike) March 28, 2025