#political-memes

#political-memes

A teenage girl dances to reggaeton, wearing a presidential sash and a high ponytail. It's Claudia Sheinbaum or at least her TikTok version. In the video, the voice of Mexico's president can be heard stating one of her campaign promises: We're going to build more high schools close to people's homes. What began as a joke among friends quickly turned into a phenomenon, spreading across thousands of screens and sparking imitations, memes, songs, and costumes.

How do you say that they take no pleasure in this and then the next minute say, Oh, they're just having fun and trolling people? This is a government shutdown. On one hand, you say this is very seriouspeople's jobs are on the line.

If that's how we're doing it, JD, then we here at The Late Show also enjoy humor, the host declared. He proceeded to roll a heavily censored AI animation of Vance humping a sofa while wearing a sombrero in callback to an internet hoax that falsely claimed Vance once wrote about such an encounter in his memoir. The rumor, long debunked, was recycled through online memes during the 2024 campaign.

The Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention facility is a contentious symbol of Donald Trump's immigration policies, illustrating a growing divide over how such actions are perceived across America.