Microsoft might be silent, but Halo's co-creator and Halo 2's design lead have called the US government's 'Destroy the Flood' analogy comparing immigrants to parasites 'absolutely abhorrent'

Master Chief from Halo stands ready with an assault rifle as combat rages on behind him.

Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars.

A slightly more eventful post happened when the X account for the Department of Homeland Security shared an advertisement for immigration enforcement agency ICE, depicting two spartans in a Warthog under a Halo ring, with the caption: "Destroy the Flood". The Flood being a parasitic alien lifeform and major antagonist in the Halo series.