...a customs agent first questioned him about a sausage in his luggage. A plainclothes ICE agent approached and promised to “fix the issue quickly” before bringing him to an interrogation room. [2]
...Mikkelsen did not say if he provoked immigration officials in some way. However, he did note that he was exhausted having just deplaned a long flight across the Atlantic Ocean. “I had travelled for twelve hours, slept poorly, and was physically and mentally completely exhausted even before they started the questioning,” [1]
...Mikkelsen claims that immigration officials... quizzed him “about drug trafficking, terrorist plots, and right-wing extremism” [1]
...Mikkelsen claims that officials threatened ...if he did not grant them access to his phone [1]
...they [Customs]...signaled disapproval to a photo of him with a homemade wooden pipe. [1]
finally...
...agents found a meme on his device that showed the vice president’s face—digitally altered to make him chubbier, bald, and cartoonish
It feels weird to paste a reddit comment here, but it looks like he died with covid, not of it.
"The specific details vary slightly in their inclusion per article, but the story and timeline remains consistent across all articles:
[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourist-mads-mikkelsen-claims-he-was-denied-entry-to-us-because-of-vance-meme-on-phone/
[2] https://www.dailydot.com/culture/norwegian-tourist-barred-from-united-states-jd-vance-meme/
finally...
His name is Mads Mikkelsen? Might as well be "John Doe."
First obvious question "Do you have a criminal history, Mads?"