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White House zings Michael Moore over illegal alien curing cancer plea: ‘Dumbest statement of the year’

February 27, 2025 | | Print Article

Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore was called out by the White House for making perhaps the “dumbest statement of the year.”

The leftist director and screenwriter’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants was met with a scathing rebuke from the White House, blasting the “disgraced” activist for arguing in favor of allowing the migrants to stay in the U.S. illegally because of their potential contributions.

“Who’s really being removed by ICE tonight?” Moore asked in a blog post published Tuesday titled, “Our Muslim Boy Wonder.”

“The child who would’ve discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th-grade nerd who would’ve stopped that asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032? Do we care?” he wrote, wondering who would then save the world from “the asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032.”

“For every time I have heard a negative word or blatant hatred spewed toward those who came from afar, I have felt that I should pause, get down on one knee, and thank all of those who gave up their lives elsewhere to come here and be with us,” the 70-year-old declared.

The White responded with a truth bomb.

“In a strong contender for dumbest statement of the year, disgraced ‘filmmaker’ Michael Moore lamented illegal immigrant criminals being apprehended because they might’ve ‘discovered the cure for cancer’ or ‘stopped that asteroid,’” the White House statement said. “The only thing more foolish than that statement are the politicians who oppose the deportations.”

The statement was accompanied by a list of criminal illegal immigrants arrested including nine child sex predators and rapists, kidnappers, murderers, and gang members.

Tom Homan blasted Moore during an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity,” suggesting the filmmaker speak with the families of victims of the criminals.

“I wish Michael Moore would talk to an Angel mom and dad…I’ve talked to hundreds of them, American citizen parents who buried their children because their children [were] murdered and raped by an illegal alien,” Homan said.

Social media users added to the pile-on of criticism.

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