Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

Posted by miles 6/24/2025

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme(www.dublinlive.ie)

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3hoss 6/24/2025|

Mads Mikkelsen? I'm very skeptical that this is real, and kind of disappointed that HN is being so credulous.

eesmith 6/24/2025||

https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/navn/statistikk/navn says there are 12 people in Norway with that name.

Here's a footballer from Tromsø with that name: https://www.til.no/nyheter/mads-med-forste-proffkontrakt . He is 17 years old, so not the 21 year old mentioned here.

Here is another Mads Mikkelsen in Tromsø. https://fjellet.dk/

strangecasts 6/24/2025||

Huh, I didn't know SSB let you do combined first/last name searches, I assumed it would only let you search the names individually

(Is Tromsø where they keep all the spare Mads Mikkelsens??)

surgical_fire 6/24/2025|||

Something tells me that you are the kind of person that would put a unique constraint on a table for the combination of first_name and last_name.

affinepplan 6/24/2025||

Some People In The World Sometimes Have The Same Name As Each Other

thrownaway561 6/24/2025||

you people have been had... RTFA... a tourist "claims" this happened. The tourist name is Mads Mikkelsen??? The dude has the same name as the fucking actor??? Really??? Seriously people, learn when things smell of bullshit and when it doesn't.

DocTomoe 6/24/2025||

You are aware that names are not UUIDs, and that the same name can be used by several people, right? Especially since Mikkelsen is a rather common Danish surname (with around 35000 people named that) and Mads having been a very popular boy's name in the 1990s?

knowaveragejoe 6/24/2025||

Ah yes, it's a conspiracy and you spotted the critical oversight on their part. Real astute.

It's not actually that unlikely for other people to possess the name.

kizer 6/24/2025||

What the hell is happening to our country :(

pstuart 6/24/2025|

A fascist coup is in play and they are actively dismantling all the safeguards to prevent it.

platevoltage 6/24/2025||

and we have at least 3.5 years to go.

tumsfestival 6/25/2025||

If you're lucky, that is. As things are going it could be another 4 years... Maybe more.

qoez 6/24/2025||

His name was "Mads Mikkelsen", like the actor? Either he gave a fake name or this story is made up.

strangecasts 6/24/2025||

It would be quite a feat for the local paper [1] to interview him without realizing his name was fake!

Mads and Mikkelsen are both common Norwegian names (SSB has >4000 Mads and Mikkelsens individually), and unless his parents were big Refn enthusiasts I don't think they would have been aware of the actor...

[1] https://www.nordlys.no/mads-sin-drommereise-til-usa-spolert-...

o_m 6/24/2025|||

I don't understand this logic. It's a common Scandinavian name. It doesn't have to be either or.

qoez 6/24/2025||

The logic is pretty simple: I didn't know it was common :)

FeteCommuniste 6/24/2025|||

That's like saying a news story about an American was fake because his name was "Michael Jordan" or "David Robinson." Some names are really common.

sct202 6/24/2025|||

But here's a link to a local newspaper from his part of Norway: https://www.nordlys.no/mads-sin-drommereise-til-usa-spolert-...

https://archive.ph/h3Uf4 couldn't capture it well but you can see has his name is referenced as Mads Mikkelsen.

keybored 6/24/2025||

“His name is John Smith? Big Fake warning bells!”

qoez 6/24/2025|

To play devils advocate: I have a feeling the rules around what's allowed on social media according to these new rules are pretty vague and so whoever vetted this ended up being the judge in this case. I doubt jd vance made some memo about not allowing bald vance meme sharers from entering the country.

platevoltage 6/24/2025|

Do you doubt that there was a memo sent out that instructed CPD to deny entry to anyone who has anything negative to say about the administration? Because that seems like exactly something this admin would do.

platevoltage 6/24/2025||

*CBP