A former top Trump official has torched a new Department of Homeland Security promo video—describing it as “creepy,” “stupid,” and “wildly irresponsible.”
The new Department of Homeland Security post—brandishing a Theodore Roosevelt line about crushing “nullification, secession, or rebellion”—rolled out Monday.
It features an orchestral bombast and cut-ups of an army of ICE officials in riot gear and gas masks battling protestors amid a sea of tear gas.
In its X post, the department wrote Roosevelt’s 1887 quote, “The United States has the same right to protect itself… as a man has to protect himself from death by assassination,” atop footage of ranks of ICE officers flooding out of a compound.
They can then be seen battling and pushing back crowds, intercut with black and white foota