(NEXSTAR) – A spokesperson for U.K. travel brands Jet2 and Jet2holidays said the company finds it “very disappointing” that the Trump administration promoted the Department of Homeland Security’s deportation efforts using a meme referencing Jet2.

The meme had previously become popular on platforms including TikTok and Instagram, where users would share videos of themselves or others in compromising and sometimes harrowing situations, overlaid with the audio from a specific 2024 Jet2holidays commercial advertising flight and hotel packages.

“Nothing beats a Jet2holiday!” a voiceover artist for the commercial states. In recent weeks, that audio clip has been overlaid over viral videos of people having mishaps on waterslides or frightening encounters with wildlife.

Jet2 has even gotten in

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