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The executive mansion is leaning into online trolling

Whoever controls the White House Social Media accounts is taking lessons from the troll-in-Chief.

On Valentine's day they posted a pink heart image with the poem “roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally and we’ll deport you”.

Yesterday they posted a video on X captioned “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight” showing officials unpacking handcuffs and shackles before forcing several figures onto a plane. (ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response and refers here to a genre of online videos designed to help viewers relax.)

The posts prompted pushback on X, where a user wrote: “I'm a conservative and this doesn't make me feel good.”

But Elon Musk reposted the video with the caption “Haha wow” followed by emojis of a troll and a medal.


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