A Norwegian tourist claims DHS barred them from the U.S. because they had the meme on their phone. DHS denies it, but now the already-infamous meme has gone international.

“For every 100 likes I will turn J.D. Vance into a progressively apple cheeked baby,” he wrote on X, posting the same portrait but giving Vance a more bloated face.

On June 11, Mads Mikkelsen said he was denied entry at Newark Liberty International Airport because CBP found the bald, baby-faced Vance meme on his phone and considered it “extremist propaganda.” ...