Trump turns migrants into memes to promote deportation agenda

Axios features Jacob Neiheisel in an article exploring Donald Trump’s use of memes to promote his deportation agenda. Trump’s affinity for memes reflects the MAGA movement’s origins in some of the “darker corners of the internet” — like 4chan — “where meme culture is ... quite prevalent,” Neiheisel told Axios. The memeification of deportations certainly “looks cruel,” but is unlikely to spark political backlash, Neiheisel said. “The people who take umbrage are ones who weren’t going to be part of the Trump coalition anyways, and the ones who get it, really like it,” he added.