Critics are calling out President Donald Trump and his Homeland Security Department for a social media post threatening to deport millions of people ― including, by implication, millions of American citizens. The agency posted an image of a vintage car on a beach with “America After 100 Million Deportations” written across it. “The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world,” the agency added as it shared the image, which is a detail of the painting “Impender Beach,” by Japanese pop artist Hiroshi Nagai . There is no indication that Nagai approved of the use of his work, nor is even aware of the social media message, which the agency posted on Wednesday afternoon, then reposted a few hours later. Trump during the 2024 campaign repeatedly promised to deport millions. However, deporting 100 million people would mean far more than the undocumented. The Pew Research Center said there were 14 million undocumented migrants in the country in 2023, along with nearly 38 million who have legal status, including naturalized citizens. That’s a total of roughly 52 million foreign-born residents, still 48 million short of the number in the DHS social media post. Critics fired back on X: It’s absolutely insane that the DHS Twitter feed consistently and unabashedly puts out racist and white supremacist content. Leaves no doubt at all that the motivation of Trump’s mass deportation is to rid the country of non-white people https://t.co/6aK5QkNoYX — Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) December 31, 2025 100 million? https://t.co/0acKgDp7pI — Michael Scherer (@michaelscherer) January 1, 2026 The extent to which this administration fantasizes about "deporting" US citizens is genuinely sickening There aren't even close to 100M immigrants total in the US, you can only get this number if you're "deporting" every legal immigrant & ~50M million people born in the US https://t.co/D6L6irxHaE — Joey Politano ️ (@JosephPolitano) December 31, 2025 This means they would want to deport all illegal immigrants, all legal immigrants, and ~50 million native-born Americans. https://t.co/QcA1hqnklz — The Alex Nowrasteh (@AlexNowrasteh) December 31, 2025 100 million deportations means basically kicking out every nonwhite person. Citizen or not https://t.co/CalVEj972F — Daniel Aguilar (@daanielaaguilar) December 31, 2025 Basic math tells us that either: (1) they plan on deporting tens of millions of natural-born citizens or (2) this administration is so focused on shitposting and triggering the libs because they’re just hoping to distract from the fact that their immigration policy (including… https://t.co/AyJtA1ww3A — Austin Baird (@ASBaird) December 31, 2025 An official U.S. government account putting this out is objectively nuts. https://t.co/aOvtnjLLJb — Devin Driscoll (@short_pants) December 31, 2025 The regime wants to deport all legal immigrants, 50 plus million native born Americans (presumably the non whites) and just under a third of the population overall. Hiding behind memes and irony doesn't change what this is. https://t.co/zTguEIuzX7 — Andre Infante (@AndreTI) January 1, 2026 This is just blatant Nazi propaganda at this point. https://t.co/KLSuiUCChd — SK Media (@SpaghettiKozak) December 31, 2025 The entire U.S. foreign-born population is only 45 million people, so this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens. https://t.co/ufWkoaOIZK — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) December 31, 2025 They have said so many terrible things but this is probably top 5 easy. This basically accounts for every non-white in the country foreign born or not. https://t.co/WwC8BnQbjW — Jake Hausdorf (@J_Hausdorf) December 31, 2025 In order to deport 100 million people, tens of millions of U.S. Citizens would need to be deported. Is the social media team filled with idiots or white supremacists? My guess is both. Shame on Secretary Noem. https://t.co/w81J8ulP0J — Charles Blanchard (@FmrAirForceGC) January 1, 2026 100 million deportations? How is this not Nazi rhetoric from a taxpayer funded account? https://t.co/xILwM8CHXl — DJ Quinlan (@djquinlan) January 1, 2026