Recently, the Department of Homeland Security has announced ICE will be at February’s Super Bowl. This may strike normal people as uncontroversial given its historical precedent and the amount of security needed for the Super Bowl, but for ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, ICE’s Super Bowl deployment allows it to do its number one job: tackle brown people.
Kimmel’s ramblings came against the backdrop of conservative reaction to Bad Bunny being named this season’s halftime performer, “Oh man, so much outrage. One of Trump's top henchweasels, Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski, is very angry at the NFL too. He said, ‘It's shameful that they decided to pick someone who just seems to hate America so much.’”
According to Kimmel, the person who really hates America is President Trump, “We said the same thing the day after the election.”
He also saw irony in Lewandowski’s idea that the Super Bowl should not be a politically divisive event, “And then he said, ‘There are plenty of great bands and entertainment people out there who could be playing at that show that would bring people together and not separating them.’ Do these people even hear themselves talking?’”
By that logic, no law should ever be enforced because sending criminals to jail is “separating” them from their families. However, Kimmel then took on ICE itself, “So now, because this Bunny is so very bad, they are planning to have ICE agents present at the Super Bowl. I guess, there's a reason. ICE heard there was a field where brown people get tackled and they’re like, 'Hey, that's our job.’”
ICE was present at the Super Bowl in February, under President Trump, and nobody thought that was a big deal because it wasn’t. But for liberals like Kimmel, who think history starts today, every normal thing the administration does must also be included on the list of evidence that states that the administration is racist and a threat to democracy.
Here is a transcript for the October 2 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
10/2/2025
11:40 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh man, so much outrage. One of Trump's top henchweasels, Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski, is very angry at the NFL too. He said, “It's shameful that they decided to pick someone who just seems to hate America so much.”
We said the same thing the day after the election. And then he said, "There are plenty of great bands and entertainment people out there who could be playing at that show that would bring people together and not separating them."
Do these people even hear themselves talking? So now, because this Bunny is so very bad, they are planning to have ICE agents present at the Super Bowl. I guess, there's a reason. ICE heard there was a field where brown people get tackled and they’re like, “Hey, that's our job.
