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23 minutes ago
- Buzz Feed
A Major Trump-Supporting Celebrity Just Signed Up To Be An ICE Officer
ICE has been ramping up efforts to recruit new agents. They've gotten rid of the age cap. They're offering studen loan forgiveness and a $50,000 sign up bonus. They're saying you don't need an undergraduate degree. And they're using South Park pics to entice anyone to join. Well, one of Trump's *famous* fans says he's signed up. In case you didn't know, Dean Cain is best known for playing Superman in the early '90s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Nowadays, he's a permanent Trump fanboy, tweeting stuff like this: This: And this: Now, he's joining ICE. Cain told Jesse Watters on Fox, "I put out a recruitment video yesterday. I'm actually a sworn deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer. I wasn't part of ICE, but once I put that out there and you put a little blurb on your show, it went crazy. So now I've spoken with some officials over at ICE, and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent ASAP. So they'll have 88,001 recruits for their 10,000 positions." "Are you gonna be hopping out of ICE vans and apprehending guys?" Watters asks. "I will do Director Lyons tells me what to do. If that what it takes. Absolutely, I somehow doubt I'll be in that position, but I'll be there in a heartbeat." Later in the interview, Watters asks, "What is it about serving this country that is inspiring to you?" "This country was built on patriots stepping up, whether it was popular or not, and doing the right thing. I truly believe this is the right thing. Listen, the United States takes in more legal immigrants than the next four countries combined," he says. "We have a broken immigration system. Congress needs to fix it, but in the interim, President Trump ran on this. He is delivering on this. This is what people voted for. It's what I voted for, and he's going to see it through, and I'll do my part and help him make sure it happens." So, there you have it, Dean Cain is joining ICE. Let's see if Roseanne steps up next!
New York Times
an hour ago
- New York Times
‘South Park' Finds New Relevance Skewering the Trump Era
When the new season of 'South Park' premiered last month with a scene showing President Trump in bed with Satan discussing Jeffrey Epstein, the White House attacked the series as a 'fourth-rate show' and said that it 'hasn't been relevant for over 20 years.' But the episode drew strong ratings, and when the series returned on Wednesday night some of the Trump administration officials and allies who were skewered — including Vice President JD Vance — took a different tack, and tried to show they could take a joke. 'Well, I've finally made it,' Mr. Vance wrote on social media as he reposted a scene from the show that imagined Mar-a-Lago as 'Fantasy Island' and the vice president as Tattoo, the short sidekick who was played by in the original series by the actor Hervé Villechaize. Well, I've finally made it In the episode, 'Got a Nut,' Mr. Mackey, a school counselor, loses his job because of budget cuts and takes a position with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He accompanies ICE on raids of a 'Dora the Explorer Live!' show and of heaven, where he is told to round up only brown angels. The show portrays Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, who wrote in her memoir about shooting her dog, as a serial dog shooter. 'A few years ago I had to put my puppy down by shooting it in the face, because sometimes doing what's important means doing what's hard,' her character says in a training video. 'South Park,' which has routinely roasted political figures with satire and dark comedy since its debut in 1997, has regained momentum as its tart observations of the second Trump administration are commanding attention and breaking through online. Before the episode aired, the Department of Homeland Security's account on X shared a screenshot from a 'South Park' trailer showing masked ICE agents — and added a link to its recruitment website. The 'South Park' social media account responded, 'Wait, so we ARE relevant?' and added a ribald hashtag. The second episode also briefly portrays Charlie Kirk, the founder and chief of the pro-Trump, youth-focused Turning Point USA. The real Mr. Kirk embraced the parody and approvingly shared several clips on his social media accounts, including a segment where Cartman fiercely debates 'woke liberal students.' 'Not bad, Cartman,' he wrote on X, where he changed his avatar to an image of Cartman sporting a Kirk-like haircut.
The Hill
an hour ago
- The Hill
‘South Park' mocks Noem, Vance in new episode
'South Park' on Wednesday night continued its satirical attacks on the Trump administration, with its latest episode taking aim at figures including the president, Vice President Vance and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. The episode, dubbed 'Got a Nut,' depicts the school counselor, Mr. Mackey, who is terminated from his job at an elementary school, eventually joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mackey watches a recruitment video where Noem refers to shooting her dog, then shows her shooting multiple dogs. Later in the episode, Noem is shown leading an immigration raid on a 'Dora the Explorer live concert, where she shoots a dog, and then a raid in heaven, where she tells agents to 'only detain the brown ones.' Mackey is later invited to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, where the president offers to make him Noem's replacement, then invites the former school counselor into his bed with satan. Vance is depicted as a mini-sized Trump servant. After Trump gets annoyed with Vance in the episode, the president kicks him. 'Well, I've finally made it,' Vance said in a Thursday morning post on social media platform X, commenting on an image of his portrayal in the episode. 'South Park' and the administration have gone back-and-forth recently, with the sitcom jabbing DHS for using an image from the cartoon to help their ICE recruiting efforts. 'Wait, so we ARE relevant,' the show wrote on Tuesday on X, before telling DHS to 'eat a bag of d‑‑‑s.' 'We want to thank South Park for drawing attention to ICE law enforcement recruitment: We are calling on patriotic Americans to help us remove murderers, gang members, pedophiles, and other violent criminals from our country,' DHS said in a statement earlier this week.
