Overview

• The White House’s official X post pairs the viral Jet2 holiday meme audio—Jess Glynne’s “Hold My Hand” and Zoe Lister’s voiceover—with footage of ICE officers loading handcuffed migrants onto planes and a screenshot of the CBP Home self-deportation app.
• Captioned “When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation. Nothing beats it!,” the video has amassed over 2.8 million views and thousands of responses denouncing the juxtaposition as callous.
• Singer Jess Glynne and voice actor Zoe Lister publicly condemned the unauthorized use of their performances, with Glynne calling the post “sick” and Lister asking what legal recourse exists.
• White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson defended the meme-driven strategy as “unifying and positive” in removing “criminal illegal aliens” and pledged to continue similar posts.
• The clip reflects the Trump administration’s broader turn to edgy memes and AI graphics in policy messaging, backed by a $170 billion boost to border enforcement funding despite multi-decade lows in illegal crossings.