Trump’s Second Term Year 1: A Non-Stop Parade of “Banger Memes” from the White House
From gangster vibes to Jedi Trump and cartoon turtle airstrikes, the administration turned memes into its signature communication weapon in 2025.
US President Donald Trump marked one full year of his second term on January 20, 2026, and if there’s one thing that defined the past twelve months, it’s the relentless stream of viral, often provocative “banger memes” flooding official White House and administration social media accounts. What started as playful AI-generated portraits quickly evolved into a full-blown strategy for announcing policies, mocking critics, and keeping the internet hooked.
It kicked off early in January 2025 when Trump shared an AI image of himself as a 1920s gangster flanked by the bold letters “FAFO” (short for a well-known internet taunt). This set the tone for the year, with Trump and federal accounts regularly posting AI-edited visuals portraying him as a king, a pope, a Star Wars Jedi (especially around May the Fourth), and more. These images weren’t just for laughs—they doubled as symbolic power projections.
The White House took it further with policy memes. On Valentine’s Day 2025, they dropped a cheeky rhyme: “Violets are blue, come here illegally, and we will deport you.” In March, a Studio Ghibli-style animated arrest of an alleged undocumented immigrant went viral. By July, a train-bus crash meme template promoted a ban on tuition benefits for undocumented immigrants, followed by a defiant post declaring, “Nowhere in the Constitution does it say we can’t post banger memes.”
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Even serious moments got the meme treatment. During an October government shutdown, the White House Instagram joked that their social media manager had been furloughed but still wished to “make America great again.” In November, after reports of a controversial military incident in the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a fake children’s book cover titled “Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists,” showing the beloved turtle cartoon blasting boats with a grenade launcher.
Experts see this as deliberate spectacle. Political communication scholars note that memes allow the administration to subvert norms, provoke opponents for maximum attention, and rally supporters without traditional policy debates. A White House spokesperson defended the approach, stating that “engaging posts and banger memes” effectively communicate the President’s “extremely popular agenda.”
Love it or hate it, Trump’s second-term social media game has kept the internet buzzing, turning governance into a daily dose of viral content.
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