John Cusack’s latest Twitter tantrum perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with America’s coastal elite. The actor, whose career peaked sometime during the Clinton administration, took to social media this week to denounce President Trump’s immigration enforcement operations as the work of “masked goons” engaged in “abducting people.”
It’s a remarkable display of constitutional illiteracy from someone who presumably graduated high school.
What has Cusack so triggered? The simple act of a president doing his job. Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are executing lawful deportation orders against individuals who entered our country illegally and exhausted their legal appeals. This isn’t authoritarianism—it’s the rule of law in action.
The Hollywood hysteria reveals something far more significant than one actor’s ignorance of basic civics. It exposes the panic coursing through America’s open-borders establishment as they watch Trump systematically dismantle decades of immigration lawlessness that has enriched elites while devastating working families.
For too long, sanctuary cities like Cusack’s Chicago have operated as de facto foreign territories, openly defying federal immigration law while demanding taxpayer subsidies to manage the chaos they’ve created. Local Democrat politicians have built entire political machines around protecting illegal immigrants from consequences, creating a parallel system that undermines American sovereignty and wages.
Trump’s targeted enforcement operations in these sanctuary strongholds send an unmistakable message: the era of selective law enforcement is over. Cities that want federal funding must respect federal authority. It’s a principle so basic that even Hollywood should understand it, though apparently that’s asking too much.
The economic implications extend far beyond celebrity virtue signaling. Every illegal immigrant removed from the workforce creates opportunities for American citizens, particularly in construction, hospitality, and service sectors where wage suppression has become endemic. When employers can no longer exploit undocumented workers willing to accept substandard pay and dangerous conditions, they’re forced to compete for legal workers through higher wages and better benefits.
This is economic nationalism at its finest—protecting American workers from unfair competition while ensuring immigrants who want to join our society do so through legal channels that respect our sovereignty and values.
Constitutional scholars recognize that immigration enforcement represents one of the federal government’s core responsibilities. Article IV, Section 4 explicitly requires the federal government to protect states from invasion, while Article I grants Congress plenary power over naturalization and immigration. When Trump enforces existing immigration statutes, he’s fulfilling his oath to faithfully execute the laws—exactly what voters elected him to do.
The “No Kings” protests that Cusack promotes represent classic leftist projection. These activists demand Trump ignore democratically-enacted immigration laws and his clear electoral mandate to secure the border. They want a president who selectively enforces laws based on progressive political preferences—the very definition of authoritarianism they claim to oppose.
Meanwhile, Trump’s approach respects constitutional boundaries while delivering results. His administration works within existing legal frameworks, processes deportation cases through established courts, and provides due process protections that illegal immigrants in most countries could never expect.
The coordinated celebrity outrage and manufactured protests suggest significant resources being deployed to defend the indefensible. But this represents a strategic miscalculation by the left. Defending illegal immigration while American families struggle with inflation, crime, and economic uncertainty only reinforces Trump’s populist appeal.
Patriots should expect escalating rhetoric as enforcement operations expand beyond sanctuary cities to target the broader illegal immigration infrastructure. When Hollywood elites like Cusack resort to inflammatory language about “abduction,” it signals that operations are successfully disrupting the pipeline that has undermined American wages and sovereignty for decades.
The beautiful irony is that every unhinged celebrity meltdown validates Trump’s approach. When the enemies of American sovereignty panic this visibly, we know we’re winning. Trump promised to enforce immigration law, and he’s delivering—one deportation at a time.
