Name: Jon Favreau BLOWS UP On ICE
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jon Favreau BLOWS UP On ICE' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-25. Transcript available.

Is there a feeling amongst members of the administration of regret after seeing
what's
happening with ICE right now?
I don't know, because it was...
My understanding was a small program in DHS that was expanded under Obama, yeah.
No, where we fucked up was the first couple years.
That's where like most of the deportations happened, and then by the time, I
think, like
Obama and the administration got their hands around it, they changed the...
Because if you're president, you have a lot of latitude there, and so you can
sort of change
the enforcement priorities, so then you can say, all right, ICE can only go
after people
who are violent criminals or the most recent arrivals, right?
And so I think by the time like 12, 13, 14 got around to that, but again, you're
dealing
with ICE, which is like has a mind of its own and got pretty big under the end
of the Bush
administration.
So those first two years, you saw like a ton of deportations.
And the other problem...
So the expansion was under Bush, wasn't it?
Bush.
And then...
I thought Bush was trying to do the...
He was trying to do amnesty, wasn't he?
And so were we.
The president can do a whole bunch of stuff on enforcement and either enforce
more, as
Trump is doing now, or enforce less, as we did by the end of Obama's second
term.
But you're never going to actually fix the system unless you change the laws
and say, okay,
the people who are here, who are undocumented, you all get a path to
citizenship, you get protection
from deportation, and we're not just going to say that you get protection under
one president,
and then if Donald Trump wins again, you lose it.
We're going to write it into law.
I had Lena Kahn on the show, and she was talking about how there's like an inquest
or like
some sort of tribunal after World War II in Congress, like in...
Into like how does a country become the Nazis?
Yeah.
And I'm like, whoa.
I was like, they try to learn a lesson?
I'm like, that's...
I mean, that sounds baffling in this day and age, right?
Yeah.
But then in the abstract, I understood kind of what was going on with the detainments,
and...
But there are, in effect, concentration camps in America right now.
And like, just go...
I've tried to say this before, but I think the most distinct way of saying it
is like,
how does a country become Nazis?
Like, not every German person became a Nazi or started hating Jews.
They just...
It was largely invisible a lot of the time.
They would see people get snatched, and then they'd go to the office the next
day.
And like, they were sent to the East.
And I think like, I can see the Democratic Party sometimes being like, we gotta
protect Social Security.
You know?
Yes.
And like, I can see them be like, we don't have time.
This is happening, but like, what's more important is protecting Social
Security.
And that is...
We gotta talk about kitchen table issues.
That is, I think, what's really scary to me right now.
Actually, it's scary, it also...
It's human beings.
It's like what keeps me awake at night.
It's infuriating to me.
And part of this is like, we've been talking about, you know, Germany and all
that.
Like, you don't even need to do any of the historical parallels,
because then you get into all these conversations.
Is it like that?
Is it not like that?
Just go from the level of like, individual human beings.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country.
Like, many of whom are here legally.
Did everything right.
Didn't just like, cross the border illegally.
Were here legally.
Some of them US citizens.
Snatched away.
Taken from their families.
From their kids.
From their kids.
Pregnant women.
Who like, aren't getting the food they need.
Like, that is happening in this country.
And all I can think about is like, you can show me the fucking poll that tells
me,
well, people don't care as much about immigration.
And if you talk more about healthcare and social security, that's good.
I get that.
I'm a student of polling.
I like polling.
I've done it, you know.
But like, you can't tell me that if someone hears the story of the pregnant
woman who was snatched
from her family and imprisoned for three days with no due process, that that's
not going to get them angry.
And maybe, and if it doesn't, then I guess that's our country.
But at least we can try to make sure that people know that those are the
stories that are happening right now.
It seems like now is a time where we kind of need to take some lessons.
Not from just Trump being crazy, but from like, what led us to this point.
100%.
And what is like the first, most important thing that we should be
investigating?
Or what is the biggest lesson we have to take for the runway that led us here?
I mean, because you were there for the runway, the initial time.
Yeah.
Like what?
I think we need leaders in this country who, and you brought this up when you
talked about like,
how the policies can sometimes feel small or incremental.
But I think that Democrats for a while now have campaigned with a list of
policies that poll well and also have campaigned sort of based on a sense of
fear that either they're going to lose the election or that the other side is
going to win and the other side is so bad that they can't say anything that
would help the other side win.
You know, and so everyone is campaigning very cautiously and speaking cautiously
and given their poll tested lines and their poll tested list of policies that
work well.
And I think one thing that I've learned from the Trump years and from the Obama
years is if you want people to pay attention to politics, to be engaged in
politics, and to fight for the country that I think we know that we are better
than, sorry, if you want people to fight for the country that we believe in,
that you have to, you have to do more than that.
You have to like say what you actually believe.
Also, sometimes you have to pass the Civil Rights Act.
You have to pass the Civil Rights Act.
And sometimes you might lose the South, like, forever.
You have to pass the Civil Rights Act, but even think, like, think of what it
took to get...
I mean, Johnson should be that example.
That's what you were reminding me of.
It's like, I'm not going to get re-elected.
You know?
And it's not fair, because I killed the guy from before, and like, no, that is,
that is not true.
George Bush's dad did that.
Okay, but...
But, okay.
No, no.
But, like, Johnson, you know, he made a massive sacrifice for the party and for
his own political career.
To do something that was right.
And it took 10 years of people marching in the streets, getting the shit beat
out of them, dying.
And also leaders like Martin Luther King, who, like, spoke in a way that was
not just political, but like, spiritual and moral about the country's, like,
best ideals that we have never reached, but they're out there.
Yeah.
And we need leaders who are going to speak like that again in, like, moral and
spiritual terms about, I mean, look, this is a country that, like, was founded
on the most radical idea in history that everyone's created equal.
Not fucking.
Not fucking.
Not fucking.
Wasn't that it?
And, like, you've got to have that, like, set of values that you speak about.
You've got to tell a story about the country, about what it's been at its best,
what it is at its worst, and, like, where it needs to go.
Mm-hmm.
And you have, and that story has to be told over and over again, and it has to
be told with confidence, and it has to be told without some kind of a fear that
people are going to attack you or yell at you over it.
And I just think, like, that's the kind of, those are the kind of leaders we
need in the party right now.
And I worry that people are thinking too small right now, not just from a
policy perspective, but in a rhetorical perspective.
Like, what is the story you're going to tell about where this country needs to
go?
Mm-hmm.
And past Trump, we've now dealt with Trump for 10 years, we've all heard about
Trump enough.
Like, we don't need a whole primary in 2028 that's all about Donald Trump.
There was a lot of George Bush when we ran in 2008, but, like, we didn't spend
a ton of time in every speech talking about George Bush, because everyone was
like, George Bush is done.
It's been two terms, we know that he fucked up the country, and now we're going
to talk about what's next.
Mm-hmm.
And I do hope that as we start getting towards 2026, '27, and '28, more
Democrats are talking about, like, where they want to take this country.
Would he like me, Obama?
What's that?
Would he like me?
Yeah, he would like you.
No, shut up, like.
He likes jokes?
He does like jokes.
Yeah.
Have you ever told him that Kendrick Lamar isn't that good?
You should put, stop putting it on the list?
I've never told him that, no.
I wonder, yeah, like, have you heard future?
It's way better.
It's the society, the institution society.
Come on, dude, it's not smart.
It's freshman year.
As a writer, you can admit, it's a little bit showing, not telling, or telling,
not showing.
A little bit.
Yeah, yeah.
You're just saying the society, the institution, or the societized.
You're not, you're not showing an image.
I'm going to give it to Kendrick.
You're not painting.
Oh, come on, dude.
You more of a Drake guy?
Yeah, me and Obama are.
Obama just can't admit it, because he's Canadian.
And he's anti-Semitic.
Has Obama ever sent you a selfie?
No, he's never sent me a selfie.
Have you sent him one?
No.
Definitely.
Can you, why don't you just send him your first selfie?
Just say, I realized I never sent you a selfie before.
It's crazy.
Hey, boss.
You still think he's your boss?
He's boss for life?
You know.
Yeah.
If he needs something, I'm always, you know.
He needs help with something.
I'm always like, sure, yeah, absolutely.
Sir?
Yeah.
You like drop a baby?
You're like, what?
He's just, can we, can we face Obama?
Just real quick.
Joji, Joji's favorite president is Obama.
Joji is a 26-year-old boy from Los Angeles, California.
And his favorite president is Obama.
as it is Obama.