Leaked Chats Show Trump Aides Pressured ICE to Prioritize Propaganda Over Facts
A recent investigation by The Washington Post uncovered Trump aides repeatedly pressuring ICE’s communications team to “flood the airwaves” with “propaganda”. Yes, that is the exact wording they used.
They requested the videos to be dramatic and viral, even when they do not accurately portray what was actually happening on the ground. The priority here wasn’t accuracy or telling the truth; it was to spread their rhetoric through social media optics.
As a result, ICE’s public affairs unit was turned into a propaganda shop, churning out Reddit-style clips of migrants being chased, shackled, and mocked, labeled as the “Worst of the Worst”, even when those arrested had no criminal record.
In one Los Angeles enforcement blitz, ICE went from posting three times in a day to nearly forty times in just eleven hours.
This included mug shots, arrests, and inflammatory captions flooding their social media channels, intended to provoke outrage and gain social media traction.
Internal chats showed an array of reactions: some staff members were alarmed by the shift, others openly accepted and embraced it. One official even admitted that the videos were discarded if “the truth of the operation” didn’t align with the slogan being pushed.”
In another instance, a deportation video was reportedly re-cut to remove women because it didn’t fit the desired image.
The push included invites to pro-Trump influencers who promoted it, using copyrighted music and imagery without permission. DHS videos were later taken down after complaints from artists and rights holders, including musicians and even the Pokémon Company.
As pressure mounted, communications staff were sent into dangerous enforcement scenes with little protection, sometimes filming arrests themselves when professional crews weren’t available. One public affairs officer ended up hospitalized after being injured during a raid. Others described being sent into dangerous situations without proper gear.
Trump officials deny any wrongdoing. DHS leadership insists the content is “transparent” and claims legal teams approved the posts. The White House has dismissed criticism as whining from bureaucrats finally being forced to “do their jobs.”
But the leaked messages tell a different story…. one where state power, social media, and dehumanization collide. This wasn’t transparency. It was propaganda designed to go viral, no matter the ripple effect of human cost.
This is what it looks like when a government stops governing and starts performing. When enforcement becomes content, cruelty becomes branding, and truth becomes optional.
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The leaked messages don’t just expose bad judgment… they reveal a deliberate strategy to turn human suffering into spectacle to serve political power.
The question isn’t whether this approach crossed a line. It’s how long it’s been happening, who approved it, and why anyone thought they wouldn’t eventually be caught.
We continue to justify invading countries across the world with the excuse of spreading our democracy globally, while we ourselves operate closer and closer to a dictatorship.
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