Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness

A vast anti-ICE movement spontaneously developed. Countless ordinary people are now recording ICE with their phones as an act of defiance in itself. Trump officials attempt to expand massive deportation prison camps-but when the places became public, local populations were quickly organizedsometimes shaming warehouse owners into selling to ICE.

When publicist Karoline Leavitt recently went after Bad Bunny for condemning ICE, she attacked “celebrities who live in gated communities” for “trying to demonize law enforcement,” even spouting the usual nonsense about “Hollywood and the elitist mob.” In doing so, she attempted to entangle the battle for ICE in tried-and-true cultural tropes.

But ICE’s paramilitary war against Americans has shattered all of these old culture war symbols. Most Americans no longer view ICE as sacred “law enforcement,” because that is fundamentally not what it practices. Working Class Voters Oppose ICE And mass deportations. And an emblem of anti-ICE, pro-immigrant America performs at the Super Bowl halftime show. “Bad Bunny is a symbol of cultural diversity,” Zirin, a sports and politics journalist, told me. “If the NFL, many of whose owners fund Trump, sees Bad Bunny as good for business, it’s very bad for the regime.”