{"id":170524,"date":"2025-08-24T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:27:10","slug":"ice-superman-dean-cain-struggles-with-agencys-boot-camp-obstacle-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170524\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Superman Dean Cain Struggles With Agency’s Boot Camp Obstacle Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been more than a quarter-century since Dean Cain played the Man of Steel\u2014and it shows. <\/p>\n

The 59-year-old actor has begun his training to become an \u201chonorary\u201d ICE officer after signing up earlier this month as part of the agency\u2019s massive recruitment drive, and Fox News was there to witness his efforts.<\/p>\n

In a Saturday morning segment on Fox & Friends, correspondent Alexis McAdams interviewed Cain at an ICE training facility in Brunswick, Georgia, about his decision to join ICE.<\/p>\n

Cain explained to McAdams that he joined because he \u201cstand[s] with our law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DeanCain is best known for playing Superman in the ’90s. Omar Vega\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201dPeople don\u2019t realize, they think that ICE is this horrible, nefarious group and they\u2019re not\u2014they\u2019re phenomenal people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The segment then cut to footage of Cain struggling to make his way through an obstacle course that took him over a wall, through a tunnel and required him to drag a dummy around. He was also filmed firing guns at a shooting range alongside acting ICE director Todd Lyons, who previously expressed<\/a> a desire for turning the deportation process into something \u201dlike [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenters on social media were quick to highlight Cain\u2019s lack of prowess on the course, with one person noting, \u201cSo they can literally just easily run from this dude and not get caught. Cool.\u201d Another asked if the video was slowed down, while someone else said that the footage proved Cain never did his own stunts.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt\u2019s kinda like watching a dog agility show but with a senior dog near death that attempts the course to the sympathetic applause from the audience,\u201d one X user<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Cain, best known for playing Clark Kent in the \u201890s TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, announced<\/a> he was joining ICE earlier this month and encouraged others to do the same, spouting Trump administration talking points in a video posted to social media.<\/p>\n

The Hallmark Channel movie staple has benefited from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s decision to remove age caps<\/a> for ICE agents, which allows both teenagers and those over the age of 40 to now apply to work for the agency. As a result, ICE claims it has been flooded with more than 100,000 applications for roughly 10,000 open positions.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining ICE, Cain was a reserve police officer in Idaho and a deputy sheriff in Virginia, something he says informed his decision to join ICE. \u201dI felt it was important to join with our first responders to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it,\u201d he told his social media followers.<\/p>\n

Speaking to McAdams, Cain said, \u201dThese guys are incredible, this whole place is incredible, and what these men and women do is protect the homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE has already begun using Cain as a recruitment tool, sharing footage of him \u201crunning\u201d the obstacle course to social media alongside a link to their website. Some of the potential benefits of joining listed on the website include up to a $50,000 signing bonus, a $60,000 student loan repayment and 25 percent premium pay. <\/p>\n

Cain also responded to his critics, including John Oliver and Bill Maher, telling them, \u201dWhat you\u2019re making fun of is me standing up for federal law enforcement and American citizens. If you want to make fun of me for that, go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late-night talk show hosts aren\u2019t the only ones to take aim at Cain\u2019s ICE affiliation. Comedian Margaret Cho asked Cain why he would join ICE when his relatives, who were Japanese, were interned in World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201dWhy would you join ICE and encourage people to join ICE when your ancestors were interned in World War II?\u201d, she asked. Cain\u2019s family was interned at Idaho\u2019s Minidoka concentration camp. <\/p>\n

\u201dThat was a horrible injustice, but I don\u2019t think that I deserve any sort of reparations,\u201d Cain told Variety<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been more than a quarter-century since Dean Cain played the Man of Steel\u2014and it shows. The 59-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,654,5410,20523,2399,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-170524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox-news","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","13":"tag-kristi-noem","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081146840264360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}