ICE, ICE, babies: Clueless celebs cry over immigration enforcement



Hollywood liberals love nothing more than embracing the “20” side of 80/20 debates.

The latest example? They’re rallying on behalf of illegal immigrants, some of whom have terrible, awful, no-good rap sheets.

German fans paid exorbitant fees to hear the Boss rant about the Trump administration. ... He wisely opted against playing the Nazi card this time ’round.

The list of stars demanding that President Donald Trump end ICE raids is growing. It may do so again by the time you read this, but for now it includes Eva Longoria, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Kim Kardashian, and, of course, the late-night lads.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t cut onions before a recent telecast, meaning his eyes remained Sahara-dry during his rant against Trump’s ICE-capades. He did manage to do what CNN attempted all week — pretend the riots breaking out in Los Angeles never happened.

“There’s no riot outside. We have more so-called unrest here when one of our teams wins a championship.”

Rumor has it Kimmel’s writing staff initially wrote some “mostly peaceful” gags, but their boss decided to go full Walter Duranty instead ...

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Brooks goes 'Balls'-out

“May the Schwartz be with you.”

The all-powerful Yogurt (Mel Brooks, of course) uttered that line in 1987’s “Spaceballs.” The “Star Wars” spoof never reached the dizzying heights of the master’s “Young Frankenstein,” “The Producers,” or “Blazing Saddles,” but comedy fans still hold the satire in high regard.

Now we’re getting a sequel. Of course.

Brooks himself shared the news on X, and the film will reportedly bring back Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, and Brooks to reprise their signature roles.

Any new Brooks project is worth celebrating, but let’s pause before popping any champagne bottles open. It isn’t clear if he’ll have any creative role in the sequel — he’s 98 but appears forever young.

Plus, the maestro’s “History of the World, Part II,” an exclusive Hulu miniseries, proved you can’t always go home again. That show proved minimally funny, with plenty of woke asides. Here’s hoping the sequel's more “Top Gun: Maverick” than, gasp, “Caddyshack II" ...

Arnold ICEs Kimmel

He’ll be back, as long as he doesn’t alienate his Hollywood pals.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s road back to Hollywood proved bumpy after his stint as California governor. He finally made inroads with Netflix’s “FUBAR,” which just released its second season.

His political instincts roared back this week while talking about the mostly peaceful L.A. ICE protests on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The bodybuilding legend and Kimmel spent a few moments gaslighting the audience about the riots.

Nothing to see here. Move along. (And don’t look on X or Facebook!)

Later, Ah-nold said the immigration blame game should be shared equally.

“Both of the parties do not want to go and solve this problem once and for all and create good immigration reform, the way, you know, like Senator Kennedy and John McCain worked it out, and they had a really great, great bill there. But then they didn't go for it.”

That was then, and debatably so. But one party now wants to slam the border shut and vet all new immigrants, while the other left the front door open and baked a cake so everyone within a country mile would come running.

Schwarzenegger may be the ultimate RINO, but this pose makes sense. At 77, he can’t afford to alienate any Hollywood power players ...

No room for horror in star's 'Full House'

Former “Full House” star Candace Cameron Bure says she’s no fan of horror movies. Except she doesn’t stop there. She doesn’t like anyone watching horror movies in her home.

Why?

“Like if you’re watching this, or you’re playing this video game, or whatever, that’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home,” Bure said. “I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV, because to me, that’s just a portal.”

To be fair, some fellas find Bure’s Hallmark romances downright scary ...

'Born to Run' (his mouth)

Bruce Springsteen shared his Trump derangement syndrome with a new European country. He broke out his new routine in England last month, ignoring how local police now arrest people for posting the “wrong” social media memes.

This time, German fans paid exorbitant fees to hear the Boss rant about the Trump administration.

Springsteen’s song remains the same, but let’s give the legend his due. He wisely opted against playing the Nazi card this time ’round.

Smart.

Bigmouth strikes again: Brave Bono latest aging rocker to bash Trump



Bono is more than just a rich and famous rock star. He's also a rich and famous activist.

The U2 front man has never been afraid to take bold stands — sometimes right in the middle of a song. AIDS? Poverty? He's against them — and he doesn't care who knows it.

Former Paramount CEO and Hollywood legend Barry Diller called 'Popeye' the most 'coked-up film set' he ever saw.

Now he's risking it all to oppose an even bigger scourge of humanity: Donald Trump.

This week the Irish warbler stopped by "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to swap anti-Orange Man barbs with late night's saddest clown.

Now, Bono isn't one to meddle in American politics. He never said a peep about the Biden administration’s rampant censorship arm, the loss of personal freedoms during COVID-19, or his own homeland’s rising levels of anti-Semitism.

But the 47th president? Drastic times call for drastic measures. Or maybe he's got his eye on a late-night show all his own?

He also sided with Bruce Springsteen in the aging rocker’s war on Trump.

“I think there’s only one Boss in America,” Bono said, the equivalent of a comic saying he’s glad to be back in (insert city) for cheap applause.

Anti-Hamas celebs a class act

It’s not very hard to speak out against anti-Semitism, is it? Bigotry bad.

See?

Tell that to Hollywood A-listers. They’ve been mostly silent over the past year-plus following the October 7 attacks and the shocking rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses. Yes, some signed open letters in the days following October 7 condemning Hamas, but that’s been mostly it.

The exceptions? Patricia Heaton, Debra Messing, singer John Ondrasik, Julianna Margulies, and Mayim Bialik. Those celebrities, along with Dean Cain, signed a new letter decrying the anti-Israel rhetoric which helped fuel the recent slaying of two Jewish people in Washington, D.C.

“Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and anti-Semitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters,” the letter reads.

Never forget that the media helped peddle many of said lies.

That wasn't spinach ...

The 1980 film “Popeye” seemed like a can‘t-miss adaptation.

Rising star Robin Williams played the sailor man, Shelley Duvall looked like the spitting image of Olive Oyl, and famed director Robert Altman worked behind the camera. Yet it missed by a country mile.

Many critics trashed it, and longtime Popeye fans were likely stunned by what they saw. The movie made back its budget, but it wasn’t the blockbuster many anticipated.

Yeah, it was weird.

Now we’re learning one reason why the film didn’t live up to its potential. Former Paramount CEO and Hollywood legend Barry Diller called "Popeye" the most "coked-up film set" he ever saw.

Film cans were used to sneak cocaine onto the set, for starters. It only got crazier from there, apparently.

As Diller recounts, “If you watch 'Popeye,' you’re watching a movie that ... runs at 78 rpm and 33 speed. ... Everyone was stoned.”

Broadway diva's latest 'bomb'

Madonna famously dreamed of blowing up the White House after Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 electoral victory. She made that shocking statement during a Women’s March rally at the dawn of Trump 1.0.

She quickly backpedaled, suggesting she didn’t actually mean it. The press took the comments “out of context.”

Sure, Jan.

Still, back in 2017, the left still had a dollop of common sense and a sense of shame. Boy, have the times changed since then.

Broadway legend Patti LuPone just doubled down on Madonna’s line of thinking. And, chances are, she won’t apologize — or be asked to do anything of the kind.

LuPone spoke to the New Yorker magazine for a fawning profile, and this part of the feature seemed to sneak past the editors as something cute, not horrifying.

"She’s even angrier at the rest of the country. She told me, more than once, that the Trumpified Kennedy Center 'should get blown up,'" the profile reads.

When they go low, we Google detonation devices.

Sweeney, take me away!

We don’t deserve Sydney Sweeney.

Not only is the comely star eager to flaunt her curves sans apology, but she’s also come up with a product that speaks to her tongue-wagging admirers.

Introducing Sydney's Bathwater Bliss. The new soap product, according to manufacturer Dr. Squatch, features a “touch” of the starlet’s bathwater.

“When your fans start asking for your bathwater, you can either ignore it or turn it into a bar of Dr. Squatch soap,” Sweeney said in a release. “It’s weird in the best way, and I love that we created something that’s not just unforgettable; it actually smells incredible and delivers like every other Dr. Squatch product I love.”

Not too long ago, Sweeney's fellow starlet Rachel Zegler told half the country they should “never know peace.”

This feels like a slight improvement on Hollywood’s PR front, no?

'I love Trump! I love Elon Musk!' Korean pop star bursts into pro-America praise at LA concert



A Korean pop singer shocked fans with a speech about how much he loves American culture after a concert in Los Angeles.

The concert in question was held at Dignity Health Sports Park in L.A. and featured musicians from the Korean record label SM Entertainment. One of the featured acts was Super Junior, a massively popular boy band with over two million YouTube subscribers and two decades of history.

'I love Five Guys. I love In-N-Out. I love Trump!'

After the concert, one of Super Junior's members, Jeongsu Park (aka "Leeteuk"), started screaming into the microphone about his love for America.

"I love Five Guys. I love In-N-Out. I love Trump!" the 41-year-old yelled.

"I love Elon Musk! I love L.A.!" Park continued.

At this point, other unidentified band members started to join in and stated, "I love people!" and "I love Five Guys!"

A video of the event taken by a member of the audience made its rounds on social media — and the videographer was apparently not impressed by the comments.

"Why did his mic not get turned OFF," the caption wrote.

At the same time, an audience member can be heard in the video saying, "Shut them up!"

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  2023: Super Junior perform live on stage in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Mauricio Santana/Getty Images

Still, Park persisted.

"I love Elon!" he added. "I love Trump!"

Multiple outlets have reported that the concert was full of jokes and comedy segments, but fans did not see the humor in the remarks and took the chance to bash the group online.

"Why are people even cheering for him," one fan asked.

"Idols aren't supposed to talk about politics for a reason," another viewer wrote.

The comments are easily juxtaposed with the recent sentiments from American rockers like Bruce Springsteen. At a show in England, Springsteen called the Trump administration "corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous."

The 75-year-old then urged his audience to "rise" against alleged authoritarianism in the United States.

"Bruce Springsteen dedicates portions of his concerts to spreading lies about the sitting president of the United States, Kelsea Ballerini uses her concerts to parade drag queens around and spread lies about bills that ban pornographic books from kids' libraries, and the internet has a problem with someone saying he loves the president?" political commentator Chrissy Clark told Blaze News.

"It must be exhausting to be a liberal. As conservatives, we've learned to separate the art from the artist," she added.

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Park's influence on his genre cannot be denied; on his own, the singer has 4.1 million followers on X. The SM Entertainment YouTube channel has over 33 million subscribers and routinely garners millions of views for its music videos.

Fans also paid a steep price to see the Koreans in concert; according to Los Angeles Events, tickets ranged from $80 to $1,376, with an average price of $218.

Super Junior originally debuted with 12 members and is currently listed on the record label's website as having 10. It also has six spin-off bands.

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Kid Rock torches Bruce Springsteen over his liberal sanctimony; identifies cause of low birth rates



Music legend Kid Rock roasted Bruce Springsteen Thursday, then identified a possible contributing cause of America's low fertility rate.

Fox News' Jesse Watters confronted Rock with footage from Springsteen's Wednesday concert in Manchester, England, where the "Born in the U.S.A." singer badmouthed the Trump administration and the president.

"The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock 'n' roll in dangerous times," said Springsteen. "In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about — that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years — is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration."

The geriatric rocker, whose preferred candidate for president lost in an electoral landslide last year, urged his foreign audience to "rise with us" against "authoritarianism, and let freedom ring."

Springsteen kept complaining and lecturing his audience over the course of his performance, declaring, for instance, that "they're rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society," and "they're abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom," reported CBS News.

When speaking with Watters about a sample of Springsteen's polemics, Rock expressed doubt over whether the liberal musician would similarly slam the president at a show stateside and questioned his relative quality.

'Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics.'

"Let's break it down. Pound for pound, when it comes to heartland rock and roll, Bruce Springsteen's made some good songs, I'll give him that. Bob Seger smokes him any day of the week in my book," said Rock. "Bruce Springsteen is another one of these liberals who has mountains of money that so desperately wants to keep his good standing in the eyes of Hollywood and the elite but plays like this working-class guy."

"His politics are so ass-backwards — just stay in Europe, Bruce," added Rock.

Watters quipped, "Maybe 'The Boss' should go by 'The Employee' next time."

President Donald Trump exercised less restraint than Rock in his response to the liberal performer's rant.

"I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country."

'It all made sense.'

Toward the end of his message, the president leaned harder into his insults, writing, "Springsteen is 'dumb as a rock'" — a "dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) [who] ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country."

Later in the segment, Watters pressed Rock on the kinds of people he sees at his concerts, asking specifically, "Do you ever see anybody with blue hair, armpit hair — female armpit hair?"

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"Listen, I was just watching your clips, and you know — we have this low birth rate in America, and it all made sense," said Rock.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed in a report last month that the fertility rate, only slightly higher than the record-low set in 2023, now sits at 1.6 births per woman over her lifetime. By way of contrast, in 1960, the U.S. rate was 3.7. The rate necessary for a population to maintain stability and replenish itself without requiring replacement by foreign nationals is 2.1.

"It just hit me right now because who's going to sleep with these ugly ass, broke, crazy, deranged, [Trump derangement syndrome], liberal women?" continued Rock. "I mean, you look at these rallies, it's like a bunch of women that no guy wants to sleep with and a bunch of dudes that want to sleep with each other."

Rock recently sat down with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck for a wide-ranging nearly hour-long conversation touching various topics including Cybertrucks, Diddy, problems with Ticketmaster, and the ways that Gen X may save us all from the "pussification of America." Watch the full episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast" featuring Kid Rock below:

 

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Left-wing exodus: The Obamas may be leaving Spotify too



Industry sources report that Barack and Michelle Obama may be removing their content from Spotify as leftwing backlash against the streaming company intensifies.

The former First Family signed a deal with Spotify back in 2019 to produce exclusive content for the streaming platform. The multi-year agreement made between the Obama’s production company Higher Ground and Spotify gave rise to “The Michelle Obama Podcast,” and a podcast hosted by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen called “Renegades: Born in the USA.”

Now that Higher Ground’s three-year deal with Spotify is coming to an end, it appears that the Obama’s are looking for greener pastures. The couple is reportedly frustrated with Spotify not enabling them to grow their company as quickly and diversely as they hoped Spotify initially would.

The Obama’s are just the latest influential cultural figures to shift away from Spotify. In recent weeks, Spotify has come under intense scrutiny for hosting the immensely popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The podcast and its titular host, Joe Rogan, have become targets in the leftist war against COVID-19 “misinformation.” So, naturally, burnt-out old liberals who have become shills for corporate America and the Democratic Party are pushing for Spotify to censor Joe Rogan by threatening to remove their content from the platform.

Popular musicians like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and David Crosby threatened to remove their music from Spotify unless the streaming service actively censors — or outright removes — “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Several influential podcasters have also begun to boycott Spotify.

However, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek made clear that he does not seek to exert editorial control over Joe Rogan’s podcast but does expect him to adhere to the company’s policies writ large.

In a recent Q&A session Ek said, “We’re trying to balance creator expression with the safety of our users.”

“So, I think the important part here is that we don’t change our policies based on one creator, nor do we change it based on any media cycle or call from anyone else,” Ek continued, “Our policies have been carefully written with the input from numbers of internal and external experts in this space. And I do believe they’re right for our platform.”

An anonymous employee of Spotify told the Los Angeles Times that “Spotify doesn’t approve Rogan’s guest list, they don’t look at his content until it goes up, and so they don’t have editing power.”

It is unclear if the potential exodus of the Obama’s from Spotify is a merely a business decision or because of opposing worldviews regarding freedom of speech.

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Obama says he punched out a friend in school, breaking his nose, after being called a racial slur



Former President Barack Obama said that back in the day when he was in school he punched out a friend — breaking the kid's nose — after he called Obama a racial slur.

What are the details?

The revelation was part of the second episode of "Renegades: Born in the USA," the podcast Obama launched with singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen in which the pair take on socio-political issues. The episode featured a racism discussion, and Obama notably blamed the "politics of white resistance and resentment" as one reason why he didn't push for reparations while he was in office.

Obama also noted that racism can be birthed from one's fear that "I'm insignificant and not important. And [being racist] is the thing that's going to give me some importance," the Huffington Post said.

Then he got personal, recalling a moment from his time in school in Hawaii when a friend called him a "c**n," the outlet noted.

"It's one of those things that where he might not even know what a c**n was — what he knew was, 'I can hurt you by saying this,'" Obama recalled, according to the Post. "And I remember I popped him in the face and broke his nose, and we were in the locker room. ... And he said, 'Why'd you do that?' And I explained to him, 'Don't you ever call me something like that.'"

According to The Hill, Obama chuckled retelling the tale — and Springsteen offered kudos for his physical response: "Well done."

The Hill added that it's believed to be the first time Obama publicly discussed the incident.

During the podcast, Obama also said that uttering racial slurs comes down to "an assertion of status over the other," The Hill reported.

"'I may be poor. I may be ignorant. I may be mean. I may be ugly. I may not like myself. I may be unhappy. But you know what I'm not?'" Obama said to Springsteen, according to the Hill. "'I'm not you.'"