Barron Trump's 'best friend' brags he helped ICE detain TikTok's top influencer

A MAGA Gen Z influencer with close ties to Barron Trump claims he played an instrumental role in federal immigration authorities detaining Khaby Lame, the world’s most-followed person on TikTok.

The 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 6 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. Lame arrived in the U.S. on April 30 and “overstayed the terms of his visa,” an ICE spokesperson said, according to The Associated Press.

While Lame hasn't publicly commented, he was reportedly allowed to voluntarily leave the country without a deportation order, ICE said.

Lame saw a meteoric rise on social media during the pandemic with his silent reaction videos to humourously complicated “life hacks.” He has more than 162 million followers on TikTok.

MAGA Gen Z influencer Bo Loudon, 18, the son of former Republican Missouri state Sen. John Loudon, is coming foward to take credit in helping the Trump administration detain Lame.

Loudon, who has called Barron Trump his “best friend,” wrote on X on Friday that he reported Lame "as an illegal alien."

"According to the official DHS website, he's currently being held at the Henderson Detention Center and is in ICE CUSTODY," Loudon wrote on X at the time.

In a video posted this week, Loudon said friends and "business partners" alerted him that Lame had overstayed his visa.

"Every single illegal alien needs to be DEPORTED. When I found out the biggest TikTok star, Khaby Lame, is an illegal alien evading taxes, I worked with Trump's ICE to have him removed. He's since been detained by ICE and removed," wrote Loudon on X. The Trump team works at LIGHTING SPEED!"

“I just called some buddies in the administration, and I’ve never seen anything happen so quick,” Loudon said in the video. “They were like, ‘We’re gonna get right on this.’”