Asked about Pokémon’s statement, the White House directed the BBC to a post on X by spokesman Kaelan Dorr.
The post includes a photo of a 10 year-old Wall Street Journal article on Trump’s 2016 Democratic rival in the presidential election, Hillary Clinton, referring to the game Pokémon Go to encourage supporters to vote. Clinton had said: “I’m trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokémon go to the polls”.
“Hey Mr Pikachu, big fan. Question for you – why no response to articles like this?” Dorr posted.
“Seems kinda like you ARE maybe affiliated with a political viewpoint, no?”
In Trump’s second term, the administration has frequently used popular memes on official government social media accounts.
White House Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson previously described the strategy, saying: “Through engaging posts and banger memes, we are successfully communicating the president’s extremely popular agenda.”
Most recently, the White House posted a video that mixed images from the war against Iran with clips from the video game franchise Call of Duty.
Numerous artists have complained about their content being used by the Trump administration on social media.
Comedian and podcaster Theo Von, who has previously interviewed Trump on his programme and says he supports him politically, reacted angrily last year when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used a clip of him speaking to reveal the agency’s deportation numbers.
“Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this,” Von wrote on X.
“I know you know my address so send a check. And please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos.”