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Showbizz Daily: ICE ‘Superman’ Dean Cain injured: Gavin Newsom jokes about it

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Dean Cain, known for his role as Superman in the series ‘Lois and Clark,’ has sparked controversy by joining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), sparking criticism on several social media platforms.

So much so that when the actor shared on X that he had been injured, jokes about it quickly flooded the comments section.

However, no one expected the most viral of all to come from the extremely active Press Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

“Turns out arresting innocent Latino kids and farm workers is harder than playing Superman…” commented Gavin Newsom in response to Dean Cain.

How did Dean Cain react to this response? Badly. He did not hesitate to respond. “Hysterical gaslighting from these idiots. Injury had nothing to do with ICE duties, just a simple home mishap…,” said the actor.

Meanwhile, dozens of users suggested that he put ‘ice’ on the injury.

Unfortunately for Dean Cain, John Oliver also joined in the mockery and did not hesitate to attack him on his programme ‘Last Week Tonight’ on HBO.

However, he did not need to resort to the injury, as it was enough for him to criticise ICE and address the serious recruitment problem: “If all you can get is Dean Cain, you are f***d’’.

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ICE ‘Superman’ Dean Cain injured: Gavin Newsom jokes about it

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ice-superman-dean-cain-injured-gavin-newsom-jokes-about-it/ss-AA1LOt3E

Daily Beast: John Oliver Dismantles MAGA’s Best Defense of Trump Budget Bill

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The late-night host argued why the Trump administration’s claims make no sense.

As the U.S. Senate continued to debate late into the night Sunday over President Donald J. Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, John Oliver poked massive holes in claims by the president and his Republican loyalists.

In Oliver’s monologue during his final episode of Last Week Tonight before his annual summer break, the Emmy-winning HBO host played clips of House Speaker Mike Johnson alleging on Meet The Press that the bill actually “strengthens Medicaid for the people who actually need it and deserve it,” a talking point echoed by, among others, Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Mitchell on Newsmax. Trump, for his part, said in a February interview with Sean Hannity while sitting alongside Elon Musk that: “Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched.”

“But there’s a few problems there,” Oliver said. “Starting with the fact that following through with a promise not to touch something has never exactly been one of Trump’s strong suits. Also the math just doesn’t support those claims.”

Oliver cited congressional budget analysis estimating more than 16 million Americans would become uninsured by 2034 should Congress pass Trump’s bill, and that rural hospitals and community services also would lose their funding as a result.

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The Republican bill, which would still need to go through reconciliation procedures with the House should it pass the Senate, would force low-income Medicaid recipients to prove they’d worked, volunteered or attended school for 80 hours a month. Oliver cited a November 2024 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, however, that found two-thirds of people on Medicaid already work, while most of the remainder are busy in school, functioning as family caretakers or living with a disability.

“And yet Republicans won’t stop painting lurid scenarios of Medicaid freeloaders,” Oliver said. 

John Oliver Dismantles MAGA’s Best Defense of Trump Budget Bill
The late-night host argued why the Trump administration’s claims make no sense.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-dismantles-magas-best-defense-of-trump-budget-bill

Deadline: John Oliver Says “Slippery Slope To Authoritarianism Under Trump” Is Here With POTUS Response To L.A. Anti-ICE Protests

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John Oliver, like his fellow late-night hosts before him, is ringing the alarm on president Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.

The Last Week Tonight host wasted no time getting down to brass tacks, addressing the Los Angeles protests that were spurred by the White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller-led escalation of ICE raids, with agents targeting a Home Depot parking lot occupied by day laborers to meet increased deportation quotas last week.

Referring to a clip of Trump’s Fort Bragg speech, where POTUS claimed the City of Angels would be “on fire” akin to the devastating Palisades and Eaton blazes earlier this year if he hadn’t mobilized thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines, Oliver remarked: “I know I’m not saying anything new right now, but he is such a dick. There is just no reason to bring up the traumatic fires that are still very much on people’s minds in L.A., for the same reason you shouldn’t open a toast at a retirement party with, ‘Wow, only milestone left after this is death.’ Yeah, everyone knows that, and we’re all trying not to think about it.”

John Oliver Says “Slippery Slope To Authoritarianism Under Trump” Is Here With POTUS Response To L.A. Anti-ICE Protests
John Oliver rang the alarm on Donald Trump’s authoritarianism over his response to the largely peaceful L.A. protests against escalating ICE raids

https://deadline.com/2025/06/john-oliver-trump-los-angeles-protests-ice-authoritarian-1236434562