Pulitzer-prize Wining Journalist Compares Trump To A Superman Supervillain Because Of His Immigration Policies

An editorial successful The Hollywood Reporter co-written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist claims that Superman is an "illegal alien," and that nan Man of Steel "wouldn’t beryllium without birthright citizenship" while comparing President Donald Trump to a "supervillain."

"When filmmaker James Gunn called his new ‘Superman’ film an migrant story, critics accused him of politicizing Superman. But you can’t politicize nan truth. Superman has been an ‘illegal alien’ for 87 years—a truth we helped America retrieve erstwhile we launched our 2013 campaign, Superman Is an Immigrant," the column, written by Andrew Slack and Jose Antonio Vargas, claimed.

Vargas was awarded nan Pulitzer Prize successful 2008 for his sum of nan Virginia Tech shootings successful nan Washington Post. 

A caller Hollywood Reporter file claimed that Superman is an "illegal immigrant." (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)

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‘Superman’ head James Gunn made headlines past week erstwhile he proclaimed that nan fig was an "immigrant who came from different places," and that nan movie would beryllium political. 

Superman was created successful 1938 by writer Jerry Siegel and creator Joe Shuster successful Cleveland, Ohio, and depicts nan communicative of Kal-El, nan past boy of nan dying satellite Krypton, whose parents prevention him from his planet’s demolition by launching him successful a spaceship that yet lands successful Kansas. Kal El, an orphan, is fixed nan sanction Clark Kent by his adoptive parents and yet grows up to go Superman.

"Superman is nan communicative of America, an migrant that came from different places and populated nan country, but for me, it is mostly a communicative that says basal quality kindness is simply a worth and is thing we person lost," Gunn told The Sunday Times. 

Superman head James Gunn called Superman an "immigrant." (Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic)

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Slack and Vargas defended Gunn by claiming that Superman has ever been political, and pointed to past comics and power plays successful which Superman took connected Hitler, nan Ku Klux Klan, xenophobia and defended Ferguson protesters from riot police. 

The file besides claimed that Superman could not beryllium without birthright citizenship, a argumentation that nan Trump management has targeted successful its push to reign successful America’s dysfunctional migration system. Birthright citizenship guarantees anyone calved successful nan United States citizenship, and was adopted pinch nan transition of nan Fourteenth Amendment successful 1868. 

"Today, that outsider would beryllium deported. In fact, without birthright citizenship, Superman would ne'er person existed astatine all. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, calved successful Cleveland to Jewish migrant parents, would person been stripped of citizenship and deported to Nazi-controlled Europe—to look definite decease successful countries they’d ne'er known. No Jerry and Joe intends nary Superman. No Superman intends nary superhero genre," nan file stated. 

The Hollywood Reporter colum likens Trump to a "supervillain." (Rick Scuteri)

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The Supreme Court issued a ruling restricting little courts’ expertise to artifact Trump’s executive order targeting birthright citizenship, but a national tribunal went connected to record an injunction against nan bid – which would person deprived citizenship to immoderate babies calved connected U.S. ungraded — soon after. 

The Hollywood Reporter columnists, who antecedently launched nan "Superman is an Immigrant" run successful 2013, likened nan president to a supervillain and claimed he was nan ground for DC comics' portrayal of Lex Luthor successful nan '80’s. 

"Of course, we couldn’t person predicted Donald Trump—the man DC Comics literally used arsenic their exemplary to reboot Lex Luthor successful 1986—waging warfare connected nan very immigrants Superman represents. In 2000, Luthor became president successful nan comics, complete pinch an anti-alien agenda. No 1 imagined nan existent President Trump would travel nan aforesaid playbook," nan file said. "Superman is America’s conscience wearing a cape—and that terrifies critics because they’re supporting a real-life supervillain."