{"id":246514,"date":"2025-07-07T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246514\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:43:11","slug":"mark-ruffalo-calls-out-dumb-joe-rogan-over-trump-ice-abductions-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246514\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ruffalo Calls Out “Dumb” Joe Rogan Over Trump & ICE Abductions Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMarvel<\/a> vet Mark Ruffalo<\/a> didn\u2019t quite go full Hulk on Joe Rogan<\/a> for the pugilistic podcaster\u2019s recent realization that Donald Trump<\/a> and masked ICE<\/a> agents\u2019 harsh attacks and rounding-up of undocumented and non-criminal Latino immigrants are cruel and out of control, but the multiple Oscar nominee got pretty close.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDear @joerogan. It\u2019s a little late now to pretend like project 2025 didn\u2019t exist and wasn\u2019t the play book all along. You are either not that smart or not that dumb. It\u2019s hard to tell at this point,\u201d Avengers<\/a> alum and political advocate Ruffalo posted on the Mark Zuckerberg-owned Threads on July 6, with reference to the nearly 1,000 page publication that Trump disavowed during last year\u2019s election and embraced with a vengeance once he was back in the White House.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHaving offered up swipes at Elon Musk, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk and the ever opinionated billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman online over the past week, the Ruffalo was responding to Rogan\u2019s outburst against the ICE abductions occurring in Blue states as part of a widening intimidation process by the Trump White House. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were told there would be no, \u2014 well, there\u2019s two things that are insane,\u201d Rogan\u00a0declared on the July 2 edition of \u00a0The Joe Rogan Experience\u00a0with Replit CEO Amjad Masad as his guest. \u201cOne is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTaking a different approach than Ruffalo, Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) posted on his private Instagram account his own agreement with Rogan, who once upon a long time ago was a big fan of Sen, Bernie Sanders (D-VA): <\/p>\n

\n\tMasked, mainly badgeless and heavily armed ICE agents or individuals working with United States Immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement unit have been swarming Home Depots, factories, car washes and homes throughout Southern California, Chicago and New York over the last month.<\/a> In early June, as protests rose up in LA over the raids, Trump federalized the California National Guard and mobilized 700 U.S. Marines to quell the dissent. Often lacking a valid warrant, and refusing to properly identify themselves, the agents have been plucking people off the streets based on what appears to be their skin color, snagging U.S. citizens and legal residents repeatedly in the process \u2014 as well as one U.S. Senator <\/a>and a NYC Mayorial candidate. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCalifornia Senator Alex Padilla being manhandled by federal agents after trying to ask a question during a LA press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Wilshire Federal Building on June 12, 2025 (Luke Johnson \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\n\tAllegedly, ICE and DHS are under pressure from White House Chief of Staff and top Trump whisperer Stephen Miller to get their numbers up 3,000 detentions a day, plus mass deportations. Of late, in a rare instance of going further than the right-wing Project 2025 itself, Trump has been testing out the notion of kicking U.S. citizens, naturalized and born here, out of the country too. <\/p>\n

\n\tTo that, Trump\u2019s just signed-into-law Big Beautiful Bill <\/a>provides billions for the building of detention camps in the Land of the Free and a massive injection of cash and resources into ICE that will make the agency one of the largest armed forces on the planet. Under his own threat from once close pal Trump too, Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man and the top GOP donor in last year\u2019s election, has formed a new political party, the America Party to challenge the Republicans and some Democrats too over the deficit busting bill \u2013 Rogan and Musk have been tight and mutual admirers for a while. <\/p>\n

\n\tA big boastful supporter of Trump in the 2024 election<\/a> and always there to give the now returned to power POTUS a big hug ringside at UFC matches, the influencial Rogan first expressed his dismay with the ICE raids and detentions back in mid-June<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBro, these ICE raids are fucking nuts, man,\u201d Rogan exclaimed on his JRE. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think if they, the Trump administration, if they\u2019re running and they said, we\u2019re gonna go to Home Depot and we\u2019re gonna arrest all the people at Home Depot, we\u2019re gonna go to construction sites, and we\u2019re gonna just, like, tackle people at construction sites,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody would have signed up for that. They said, we\u2019re gonna get rid of the criminals and the gang members first, right? And now we\u2019re, we\u2019re seeing, like, Home Depots get raided. Like, that\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA longtime activist on global warming and other progressive causes and out on the streets during the No Kings protests last month<\/a>, Ruffalo, along with several other members of the MCU,<\/a> was a big and very vocal backer of Kamala Harris<\/a>\u2018 campaign to stop Trump getting back to the Oval Office. That effort was clearly unsuccessful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel vet Mark Ruffalo didn\u2019t quite go full Hulk on Joe Rogan for the pugilistic podcaster\u2019s recent realization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[27929,4080,32,77,15812,40,25593,2175,78456,3985,3796,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-246514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-avengers","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ice","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-joe-rogan","15":"tag-kamala-harris","16":"tag-mark-ruffalo","17":"tag-marvel","18":"tag-podcast","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114814609276171773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}