White House Posts Video of ICE Arrests Set to Pokemon Theme Song

[highplainsdem]

Source: Consequence

For several months now, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been posting ghoulish social media videos celebrating the agency’s ramped-up immigration raid efforts. For its latest propaganda, ICE is appealing to a younger audience by setting a video of arrests to the Pokémon anime theme song.

Not only was the clip posted to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) X/Twitter, but it was also uploaded to the official White House TikTok account. Captioned “Gotta Catch ‘Em All,” the video goes far beyond using the Pokémon theme as a soundtrack.

In addition to splicing in images from the anime of Ash Ketchum throwing a Poké Ball, there are custom Pokémon cards featuring photos of individuals who were arrested by ICE, along with their alleged crimes, shown at the end. As of writing, the video has racked up well over 30 million views on X/Twitter, with another 3.8 million on TikTok.

Given the brazen use of Pokémon intellectual property, fans are calling upon Nintendo — which owns one-third of the franchise’s copyright and trademark through The Pokémon Company — to sue the US government for using the theme song.

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Read more: https://consequence.net/2025/09/white-house-tiktok-ice-arrests-pokemon-theme-song/

[TommyT139]

1. Custom Pokemon cards of abductees?

Sounds like copyright infringement.

[FakeNoose]

2. Somebody on Tiktok did this

Yeah they can get away with this stuff on Tiktok, but the White House staffers should know better.

[moonshinegnomie]

3. i expect nintendo to sue the shit out of them

they are well known as one of the most furious defenders of their copyrights.

[Polybius]

8. Nintendo is a conservative company

But they only own 33% of Pokémon.

[MLWR]

4. I don't know who produced this, but IMO, it's just plain sick.

[ananda]

5. Maybe sick fucks attract sick fuck followers.

There sure are a lot of them in this country
right now.

The inmates are running the asylum.

[Picaro]

6. My own country disgusts me

This is grotesque. Inhuman.

Glad I’m not traveling internationally. Bush was hard enough to explain.

This is completely inexplicable.

DHS/ICE seems to be run by gangs of vicious amoral thugs. This is straight up NAZI stuff.

[58Sunliner]

7. No words. This is grooming.

[truthisfreedom]

9. "When we get sued for abusing a copyright holder's rights,"

“We simply move on and violate someone else’s! There’s a million popular songs to steal from!”

[sakabatou]

10. Nintendo is seriously going to get pissed off