US officials forced to share bald JD Vance meme by denying tourist’s claim he was denied entry over photo (www.independent.co.uk)

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Customs and Border Protection has confirmed that, no, agents did not stop a Norwegian traveler who showed them a meme of a bald Vice President JD Vance.

“Fact Check: FALSE,” the CBP wrote on X. “Mads Mikkelsen was not denied entry for any memes or political reasons, it was for his admitted drug use.”

And no, the agency is not referring to Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, but rather the similarly named 21-year-old who was denied entry at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 11.

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

The exact meme in case anyone wants to avoid it for um... Legal purposes.

[-] troybot@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Under no circumstances should you share this image. We must send this to everyone we know to be absolutely certain all our friends and family know about this so they don't unknowingly have it on their phone. It's our patriotic duty to share this with as many people as possible.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

MSNBC's report on it is on YouTube, plenty of people in the comments replaced their profile pictures with various versions of the meme and had a lot of fun with it.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

I read your username as ChinWeasel and thought heh, username checks out oddly enough.

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