Canadian comedian Dave Foley recently used his appearance on CNN’s podcast hosted by Michael Ian Black to unleash a bitter tirade against Americans—particularly conservatives and supporters of former President Donald Trump. The longtime comic, best known for his work on Kids in the Hall, didn’t hold back, lobbing insults and comparisons that reveal just how deeply Hollywood and entertainment elites look down on everyday Americans.
Foley, a Canadian who has lived legally in the United States for three decades with a green card, painted a dark and exaggerated picture of life in America. Discussing Trump’s proposed immigration policies, he told Black that he feared Americans would support deportations so extreme that they would resemble “deporting people to 1939 Germany.” In his view, Americans are “fascists,” “uneducated,” and eager to support cruel policies without question.
But Foley didn’t stop there. He also targeted millions of conservative voters who make up the MAGA movement, dismissing them as some kind of lower class of citizens. “Then again, there’s, you know, you have this whole uh um division of Americans. It’s some sort of a new sub sub-breed of American called MAGA. And they just hate whoever they’re told to hate. So they’re So all these people are suddenly hating Canada. I’m sure they don’t know anything about Canada. I’m sure they’re not they couldn’t find it on a map, but they just they all hate Canada suddenly.”
The contempt is clear. To Foley, patriotic Americans who support strong borders, the rule of law, and common-sense immigration enforcement are not people with legitimate concerns about national security or taxpayer burden—they’re simply too ignorant to think for themselves.
Foley went on to make his grievances personal, noting that he had once been married to a Mexican-American woman and has a Latina daughter. He used his family background to accuse Trump and his supporters of targeting all “brown” people, regardless of citizenship. “I was married for quite a long time to a Mexican-American. Uh, my daughter is Latina. Um, you know, and I have a great many in-laws uh uh who are Mexican, who I I love very much, and I I fear for them. I fear for those, you know, relatives who those who might be undocumented in the country,” he said.
He added, “I also but I also fear just about equally for anyone who fits a profile in America, because I don’t think it’s not going to be restricted. It’s too reckless and too cruel the process right now for them to effectively focus on just — certainly they’re not focusing on the criminal element as they claim. They’re not focusing on rapists and murderers.”
Foley even accused federal officers of brutality, saying without evidence: “I worry I worry about anyone with brown skin in this country right now because, we’ve seen citizens being being beaten savagely by unidentified thugs wearing masks, you know, and citizens being actually taken, you know, taken out of the country because they don’t have their papers handy.”
In Foley’s telling, America is not a nation struggling to secure its borders and enforce its laws in the face of historic illegal immigration—it’s a “fascist” country where people are too distracted to notice freedom slipping away. “I mean, this isn’t a question of securing borders anymore. I mean, it’s then, you know, it really is how do you keep people distracted and angry enough to support um fascism? Fascists, they learned it a long time ago, that this technique works. Um, so we’re just we’re sitting here and we’re watching it play out, you know, in almost not even in real time, in accelerated time,” he claimed.
He even went so far as to absurdly imagine Adolf Hitler admiring America today. “If you know, I think if Hitler were alive today, he’d go, ‘Oh my god, they’re good. They’re so efficient. Those Americans, oh, we should start buying their cars. They must be great,’” Foley said.
And his disdain wasn’t limited to Trump. Foley attacked Ronald Reagan too, blaming him for supposedly creating the political climate that led to today. “Everything that we’re seeing right now in America is the natural progression of a 30-year project started by Ronald Reagan, which was the project of uh undermining faith in government, undermining faith in science, undermining faith in basically in any authority, rationality,” he said. “Teaching people to only trust their emotions. And creating an uneducated populace that is un that is unionized. He tried to get you rid of unions.”
What Foley dismisses as “undermining faith in government” is, to many Americans, simply a defense of individual liberty and skepticism of bureaucratic overreach. What he calls a “sub-breed” of citizens are, in reality, hardworking people who want secure borders, safe communities, and fiscal responsibility in Washington.
It’s telling that an entertainer who has built his career in the United States—benefiting from American audiences, American culture, and American opportunity—feels free to demean those very people as ignorant fascists. One has to wonder: if Foley holds such disdain for the country that has allowed him to thrive, why stay at all? Canada still awaits him.
