{"id":20655,"date":"2025-10-29T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/why-trumps-white-house-is-using-video-game-memes-to-recruit-for-ice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:37:15","slug":"why-trumps-white-house-is-using-video-game-memes-to-recruit-for-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/why-trumps-white-house-is-using-video-game-memes-to-recruit-for-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of \u2018rootless white males\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Just days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1982638578913206632\">shared an interesting picture on X<\/a>. The image, which appears to be AI-generated, shows President Donald Trump wearing the armour of Halo\u2019s iconic protagonist, Master Chief, standing in salute in front of an American flag that\u2019s missing several stars. In his left hand is an energy sword, a weapon used by the alien enemies in the Halo<em> <\/em>games. Posted in response to a tweet from US game retailer GameStop, the text accompanying the image reads \u201cPower to the Players\u201d in reference to the store\u2019s slogan.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop and the White House exchanged another Halo meme or two, and then, on 27 October, the official Department of Homeland Security X account joined in \u2013 using Halo imagery of a futuristic soldier in an alien world to encourage people to join its increasingly militaristic Immigration Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Stop the Flood, this one reads, equating the US\u2019s immigrant population with the parasitic aliens that Master Chief eliminates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/oct\/29\/why-trumps-white-house-is-using-video-game-memes-to-recruit-for-ice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/70c6c31adc1dd3d73ce53f6bcc307f0b0d6db735\/50_214_1048_838\/master\/1048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f8f13a491740410120967b9174254c06\" title=\"Why Trump\u2019s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE\" \/>A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of \u2018rootless white males\u2019<br \/>\nJust days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House shared an interesting picture on X. The image, which appears to be AI-generated, shows President Donald Trump wearing the armour of Halo\u2019s iconic protagonist, Master Chief, standing in salute in front of an American flag that\u2019s missing several stars. In his left hand is an energy sword, a weapon used by the alien enemies in the Halo games. Posted in response to a tweet from US game retailer GameStop, the text accompanying the image reads \u201cPower to the Players\u201d in reference to the store\u2019s slogan.<br \/>\nGameStop and the White House exchanged another Halo meme or two, and then, on 27 October, the official Department of Homeland Security X account joined in \u2013 using Halo imagery of a futuristic soldier in an alien world to encourage people to join its increasingly militaristic Immigration Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Stop the Flood, this one reads, equating the US\u2019s immigrant population with the parasitic aliens that Master Chief eliminates. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of \u2018rootless white males\u2019 Just days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House shared an interesting picture on X. The image, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/why-trumps-white-house-is-using-video-game-memes-to-recruit-for-ice\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Trump\u2019s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}