{"id":32171,"date":"2025-07-02T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/did-a-jd-vance-meme-get-a-tourist-banned-from-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:43:25","slug":"did-a-jd-vance-meme-get-a-tourist-banned-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/did-a-jd-vance-meme-get-a-tourist-banned-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a JD Vance meme get a tourist banned from the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A Norwegian tourist says he was denied entry into the US after immigration agents took issue with a meme of Vice President JD Vance on his phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">US Homeland Security officials say he was turned away for admitting drug use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton spoke to Mads Mikkelsen about his experience and looks at the laws which are in place for denying tourists coming into the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"produced-by-blanca-estrada-and-meiying-wu.-graphics-by-leo-scutt-richter.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Produced by Blanca Estrada and Meiying Wu. Graphics by Leo Scutt-Richter.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c5y2l9nn7y1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Norwegian tourist says he was denied entry into the US after immigration agents took issue with a meme of Vice President JD Vance on his phone. US Homeland Security officials say he was turned away for admitting drug use. BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton spoke to Mads Mikkelsen about his experience and looks at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[922,4035,7012,4129],"class_list":["post-32171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-banned","tag-meme","tag-tourist","tag-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32173,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32171\/revisions\/32173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}