Anyone who’s familiar with video game discourse has likely already heard about Nintendo’s fiercely litigious tendencies.
Fan-made video game mods and piracy sites are just some of the major entities that Nintendo has sent its lawyers after.
Nintendo has long claimed that this itchy lawsuit trigger finger comes from a fierce desire to protect its intellectual properties.
Not unlike Disney, who would never want Mickey Mouse to appear in a “Grand Theft Auto” game, Nintendo doesn’t want to see Super Mario in a first-person shooter game.
So when the administration of President Donald Trump began to use some Pokemon — the most valuable media franchise in the world, which is jointly owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. — imagery for social media memes,manypresumed that a legal entanglement was next.
In September, the Department of Homeland Securityused Pokemon’s slogan(“Gotta catch em all”) to put up a post of the work Immigration and Customs Enforcement was doing to capture illegal aliens.
The whole thing was tuned to the original theme song of the beloved ’90s cartoon:
Gotta Catch ‘Em All.pic.twitter.com/qCvflkJGmB
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov)September 22, 2025
More recently, the White House X account jumped on the video game zeitgeist and lifted imagery and font from Nintendo’s latest video game release, “Pokemon Pokopia.”
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