'Disgusting and depraved': White House flooded with backlash over new 'disturbing' video

On Tuesday, the White House social media accounts published a video of people in leg restraints and handcuffs being loaded onto a plane as part of a deportation operation.

On the social media accounts, the White House joked it was an ASMR video, an acronym for autonomous sensory meridian response. Such videos have gained popularity in recent years among people who enjoy certain sounds. The video showcases the clanking of the restraints on the migrants.

Critics took to social media to decry the video as "unfunny" — and even drew comparisons to Nazi Germany.

"If Hitler had a social media account," said The Lincoln Project, the Republican anti-Trump group.

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"The dumbest f---ing person you know is cheering this on and in the same breath insisting that in Nazi Germany they wouldn’t have been cheering on the SS all the same," chided the Lincoln Project rapid response director Kate Salk.

The Instagram account was flooded with people calling the video "disturbing" and "unfunny," and even questioning whether it was a real account.

"What strikes me most about the Trump administration isn't just the abject cruelty of its policies, but the way the whole thing is treated as a meme. This is real life, not a comedy. These are real people they're making a spectacle of," said deputy opinion editor of The Observer, Paige Masten.

"These people are so utterly disgusting and depraved. I'm tired of being told to empathize with them. Did economic anxiety make them do this racist s---?" said Joe Stieb, an assistant professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College.

Julianne McShane, news and engagement writer for Mother Jones, wrote, "This is a real post from the White House account. Does filming, editing and posting this constitute waste of government resources, @DOGE ?"

"We are better than this..." Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said on X.

"Every day the Trump administration does something that a future US government is going to have to apologize for. We live in an entirely human-made hell," said Kelsey AthertonKelsey Atherton, editor for the Center for International Policy Journal.

Journalist Michael McGough asked if it was, "Deportation porn?"

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