Protest frogs vs. MAGA media influencers: the info war over ICE in Portland and Chicago
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- 30 thg 10, 2025
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As the Department of Homeland Security floods social media with “propaganda” videos, and pro-Trump commentators flock to Portland and Chicago in search of a “rebellion,” local residents are responding with… chicken suits and clever jokes.
Thursday night on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel tossed to a “special report” from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, “reporting from war-torn Chicago.”
Pritzker, wearing body armor, played a TV reporter in the video clip. “We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them,” the governor quipped.
While Kimmel’s show was airing, a real reporter for The Oregonian was recording a video outside the ICE facility that has long been a magnet for protests in Portland. The topic: “Protest frogs are multiplying.”
The video showcased how Portlanders are wearing inflatable costumes to mock what one of the frog cosplayers called “insane government overreach.”
The dress-up “dismantles their narrative a little bit,” Jack Dickinson, also known as the “Portland Chicken,” told Willamette Week. “It becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.”
Pritzker and Dickinson have something in common: They’re using the tools at their disposal — smart phone cameras, social media apps and satire — to turn “war” rhetoric into a punchline. “The Daily Show” did it too, with this clip labeled “REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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