Online critics are laughing at Trump’s convoluted plot to throw off the press by renaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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In a Saturday morning Truth Social post, Trump floated a plan to rename ICE to the “National Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” or NICE. He wrote that it would “totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists.”
“Fun fact: if you say ‘an ICE facility’ and ‘a NICE facility’ out loud, they sound exactly the same,” quipped immigration policy analyst Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on X.
“Because Americans will feel much better watching ‘NICE’ agents execute their neighbours in broad daylight,” joked Canadian political commentator and radio host Dean Blundell.
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“Our president is laser focused on the important things,” author Jennifer Erin Valent sarcastically wrote. “Like social media polls about his favorite acronyms and nasty nicknames.”
“Trump sure has a thing about particular LETTERS…” posted former pro Tennis player turned political commentator Martina Navratilova.
“His brain is 100 large curd cottage cheese,” wrote GOP political strategist Jeff Timmer, using the emphatic, underlined “100” emoji.
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