{"id":34518,"date":"2025-02-27T00:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/white-house-fires-back-at-progressive-filmmaker-dumbest-statement-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T00:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:15:45","slug":"white-house-fires-back-at-progressive-filmmaker-dumbest-statement-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/white-house-fires-back-at-progressive-filmmaker-dumbest-statement-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"White House fires back at progressive filmmaker: \u2018Dumbest statement of the year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/presidential\/trump-transition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> fired back at &#8220;disgraced&#8221; progressive filmmaker and activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/michael-moore-says-deported-migrants-could-have-cured-cancer-stopped-asteroid-thats-gonna-hit-us-2032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Moore\u2019s criticism of the Trump administration\u2019s deportations<\/a>, saying his comments are &#8220;a strong contender for dumbest statement of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moore, who has directed a score of highly politically-charged documentaries, published a lengthy blog post on Tuesday titled, &#8220;Our Muslim Boy Wonder,&#8221; in which he warned that by deporting illegal immigrants, the U.S. may miss out on the person who could cure cancer, the next equivalent of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, or the person who will save the world from &#8220;the asteroid that\u2019s gonna hit us in 2032.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who&#8217;s really being removed by ICE tonight?&#8221; Moore asked. &#8220;The child who would&#8217;ve discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th grade nerd who would\u2019ve stopped that asteroid that\u2019s gonna hit us in 2032? Do we care?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker declared, &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayor-americas-biggest-city-thanks-trump-crackdown-criminal-immigrants\"><strong>MAYOR OF AMERICA\u2019S BIGGEST CITY THANKS TRUMP FOR CRACKDOWN ON CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response, the White House released a statement on Wednesday saying that illegal immigrant killers and rapists &#8220;aren\u2019t scholars \u2014 they\u2019re criminals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a strong contender for dumbest statement of the year, disgraced \u2018filmmaker\u2019 Michael Moore lamented illegal immigrant criminals being apprehended because they might\u2019ve \u2018discovered the cure for cancer\u2019 or \u2018stopped that astroid [sic],\u2019&#8221; the White House statement said. &#8220;The only thing more foolish than that statement are the politicians who oppose the deportations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement included a listing of some of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested thus far. The list included nine child sex predators and rapists as well as kidnappers, murderers and gang members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/tom-homan-tells-migrant-terror-groups-trump-wipe-you-off-face-earth\"><strong>TOM HOMAN TELLS MIGRANT TERROR GROUPS TRUMP WILL \u2018WIPE YOU OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of those listed was a documented member of the bloodthirsty gang MS-13, Salvadoran national Sergio Arquimides Pineda, who was arrested by ICE Homeland Security Investigations Corpus Christi and convicted of driving while intoxicated and aggravated assault with bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>Another illegal, Guatemalan national, Edilio Agustin-Orellana, was arrested by ICE Boston and is facing five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, three counts of kidnapping, intimidation and armed home invasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A third arrested migrant listed by the White House was Turkish national Gokhan Adriguzel, who is a known or suspected terrorist, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fentanyl-smuggling-immigrants-lead-police-dangerous-cornfield-chase\"><strong>ALLEGED FENTANYL-SMUGGLING IMMIGRANTS LEAD POLICE ON DANGEROUS CORNFIELD CHASE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael Moore is free to visit the quantum computing and particle physics labs that MS-13, TDA [Tren de Aragua], and the cartels are now going to have to set up back home in El Salvador, Venezuela, and Mexico,&#8221; quipped White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Desai said, &#8220;the Trump administration will remain focused on putting our own citizens first by mass deporting illegal migrant rapists, murderers, and other criminals out of American communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Moore for comment but did not hear back by publication time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital writers Adam Shaw and Alexander Hall contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House fired back at &#8220;disgraced&#8221; progressive filmmaker and activist Michael Moore\u2019s criticism of the Trump administration\u2019s deportations, saying his comments are &#8220;a strong contender for dumbest statement of the year.&#8221; Moore, who has directed a score of highly politically-charged documentaries, published a lengthy blog post on Tuesday titled, &#8220;Our Muslim Boy Wonder,&#8221; in &#8230; <a title=\"White House fires back at progressive filmmaker: \u2018Dumbest statement of the year\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/white-house-fires-back-at-progressive-filmmaker-dumbest-statement-of-the-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White House fires back at progressive filmmaker: \u2018Dumbest statement of the year\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}