James Gunn’s Superman hits theaters this last weekend and with it came a lot of annoying responses to the film. Including the MAGA crowd saying that the film was “woke” because Gunn correctly pointed out that Superman is an immigrant.
So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that it somehow got so much worse. The official White House account posted an image of President Donald Trump with the writing “A Trump Presidency” on the Superman poster. It also included Trump’s face on Superman’s body in the midst of his ICE raids of immigrant families.
The caption read “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY” and was basically just the poster to try and make the White House relevant with Superman‘s release. Now, to be clear, the use of Trump alongside Superman’s image is quite literally the opposite of what the character stands for and many online shared their anger over it.
Popular entertainment TikTok star Juju Green (aka Straw Hat Goofy) posted a video asking the question many of us wanted to know: How is this even real?
To post a picture of yourself as Superman when you are actively fighting AGAINST the definition of “The American Way” by forcefully removing people from this country is truly evil villain stuff. Paired with the Right’s attack on this movie, saying that Superman being an immigrant hasn’t always been a part of the character.
Since the dawning of Clark Kent, he’s been an immigrant. He crash landed in Kansas, was adopted by the Kent family, and spent his life fighting against the billionaires who try to destroy this country. So Donald Trump depicting himself as a hero who would hate him.
This is literally the bad place
There are some heroes that, to me, are not hard to understand. Sure, if you want to misunderstand the anti-heroes, that’s your prerogative but characters like Superman are pretty straight forward. He fights the billionaires, looks out for the every man, and represents the American dream in his own way.
Donald Trump represents none of that. You’d think the son of immigrants would be more open to immigration but instead, he’s forcing families apart, creating “Alligator Alcatraz,” and ruining everything that the American Dream stands for. So for Trump to dress himself like Superman and think that the hero would idolize him is just frustrating.
Trump is the Lex Luthor of this story. A rich monster who will stop at nothing to gain the power he desires.
(featured image: Warner Bros.)
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