Will I get deported for sharing this meme of JD Vance? | Arwa Mahdawi

The face that launched a thousand memes could put you on the first boat at home

I have a very important public service announcement to do. Do not make fun, in any case, of the vice-president JD Vance by sharing one of the millions of poorly flattering meees which are dedicated to him. Do you not dare to laugh at the images of him resembling “the kid lollipop” in Shrek (the resemblance is strange) or a chicken nugget. And, whatever you do, do not share the same that you can find here, where it looks like a big bald baby. You risk injuring the poor feelings and you may also be expelled from the country.

So said a 21 -year -old Norwegian called Mads Mikkelsen, anyway. Mikkelsen recently accused US border officials of refusing him to enter the United States because he had a meme of a inflated baby Vance saved on his phone. Mikkelsen, who went to the United States to visit friends, told Nordlys Norwegian that Immigration agents at Newark Airport have questioned him, forced him to give fingerprints and blood samples and crossed his phone. After finding the same vance, as well as a photo of Mikkelsen holding a homemade wooden pipe, they returned it home.

“The two photos had been automatically saved to my camera from a cat application, but I really didn’t think these innocent photos would end my entry into the country,” Mikkelsen told Nordlys.

The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) rejected Mikkelsen’s assertion that he had been expelled from the country for disrespecting the vice-president. “Connection of the facts. Affirms that Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry due to a meme is unequivocal,” they posted on Facebook earlier in the week. “Truth: Mikkelsen was denied entry to the United States for his admitted drug consumption.”

An assistant interior security secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, also called the “BS” history in an article on X.

Mikkelsen, on the other hand, insisted on the website to verify the SNOPES facts that the same played a role in the refusal. The 21 -year -old said that border officials told him that he was sent home because of “extremist propaganda [the meme] and an outrall of narcotics ”. However, this statement was not verified.

We may never know if the same vance has really played a role in the kick-off of Mikkelsen in the country. Although I do not normally store myself with border officials, we imagine that the image of the pipe was probably the real culprit. However, history, which has made the headlines of the world, will not help the American tourism industry. International visitors remain outside the United States after a series of stories about tourists sent to ice detention centers without any explanation. The World Travel & Tourism Council said that the country could lose $ 12.5 billion in international visitors spending this year.

The story has also rekindled interest in JD Vance Memes, which has been circulating for months now, culminating at the end of February after the vice-president has reprimanded Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an exchange which launched a million memes. Indeed, Ivana Bacik’s Ivana legislator recently held the same vance Baby while speaking in the Irish parliament in the history of Mikkelsen.

Although the claims to make fun of Mr. Hillbilly Elegy can expel you could be exaggerated, the fact that so many people immediately believed Mikkelsen’s claims is a sign of the way the international image of the United States has been damaged and how the country has become dystopian. The United States is very quickly heading for authoritarianism. He rages on dissent and protest. Book Banning has increased and the Trump administration asked the Ministry of Education to end its surveys on these prohibitions, calling them a “hoax”. Rights to freedom of expression are shredded.

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