The Pokémon Company says the US government did not have permission to use Pikachu and other Pokémon content promotional videos for the Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection agencies posted to X—but what it's going to do about it, if anything, remains to be seen.
The first video, a montage of ICE agents and police blowing up doors and arresting people mashed up with music and video clips from the Pokémon TV show, was posted on the evening of September 22. It also features the words "Department of Homeland Security" spelled out in the Pokémon font. It's the sort of thing I would not have believed could possibly be real if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, but there it is.
