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The plague of frog costumes demonstrates the subversive power of play in protests

Donald Trump Ice Immigration Portland Charlotte North Carolina

Demonstrators in frog costumes during the "No Kings" protest on Oct. 18, 2025, in Portland, Ore. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images

When the center of protests against immigration enforcement switched recently to Charlotte, North Carolina, so did the frogs.

Back in October 2025, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency popularly known as ICE, deployed pepper spray into the air vent of a peaceful protester’s inflatable frog costume. Video of the incident in Portland, Oregon, quickly went viral. Frogs and other inflatable costumes became a fixture of protests against Trump administration actions everywhere.

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