Jane Fonda is back in the spotlight, and she’s bringing her usual firebrand rhetoric with her — this time accusing former President Donald Trump of everything from “kidnapping” to “blinding” people under his immigration crackdown. Yes, you read that right.
Sitting beside late-night host Stephen Colbert — whose CBS show is quietly inching toward cancellation this May after a string of rating struggles — the 86-year-old actress let loose in a segment that quickly veered from political commentary into full-blown conspiracy theater.
Fonda, who has long been a lightning rod for controversy dating back to her Vietnam-era support for communist fighters, wasted no time launching into claims about the Trump administration being a “criminal enterprise.”
She dismissed the will of millions of voters, saying, “We pay their salaries… we should be in charge,” as if elections and constitutional law were just optional side notes.
Then came the tirade. “They are kidnapping people. They are illegally deporting American citizens,” she claimed, without evidence. “They’re shooting people, they’re blinding people — all kinds of really, really bad things are happening.” It was a laundry list of dramatic accusations with no verifiable basis, capped off with a claim that the United States government has succumbed entirely to authoritarianism.
Fonda insisted this wasn’t about left or right — while making it unmistakably about left-wing outrage. “It’s a question of right or wrong,” she said, moments after labeling the Trump administration as fascist and criminal.
The performance was less about facts and more about signaling — dramatic, emotional, and aimed squarely at reinforcing a partisan narrative.
The interview comes as left-wing celebrities ramp up their attacks amid renewed immigration enforcement efforts under Trump’s policies.
Federal agents have been involved in several recent high-profile operations, including the incident in Minneapolis that Fonda referenced — though she mischaracterized it, failing to mention that the individual in that case was reportedly armed and suspected of violent crimes.
While Fonda’s fans may cheer her theatrical activism, critics are calling it more of the same from an actress who’s never been shy about stirring outrage — regardless of the facts. The only question now is whether this latest act is enough to generate headlines, or just another flash of noise from a fading voice on a fading show.
