We Deport. You Laugh?
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gleefully portray the mass deportations being carried out across the country. It’s impossible to ignore… which is exactly what the administration wants.
Guest: Drew Harwell, tech reporter at the Washington Post.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the year 2000. |
| 0:02.0 | Everyone, everywhere is having fun, except me. |
| 0:06.0 | On BBC Eye Player. |
| 0:08.0 | I worry you're growing up too fast. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, we can't be your little duck here forever, can I? |
| 0:13.0 | Inspired by a true story. |
| 0:15.0 | You walk out this house a boy, one day you'll come back. |
| 0:17.0 | When you do, you will be a man. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, and hard your breath. |
| 0:21.5 | What it feels like for a girl. |
| 0:23.2 | I wish I could look like you. |
| 0:24.7 | Bebe, you can. |
| 0:26.2 | Why don't you? |
| 0:27.0 | Watch on BBC Eye Player. |
| 0:30.3 | Just a quick heads up before we get started today. |
| 0:33.1 | There is a little swearing in this episode. |
| 0:36.3 | Okay, here's the show. If you spend a decent amount of |
| 0:44.0 | time online, you have probably come across the menswear guy. His real name is Derek Guy, |
| 0:50.2 | but that's not what most people call him. Yeah, the menswear guy. |
| 0:56.0 | So he has a million followers on X. |
| 0:59.7 | He is basically a menswear fashion influencer. |
| 1:04.1 | That's Drew Harwell, who writes about tech for the Washington Post. |
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