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All the MAGA-era bad guys we know today are there in writer-director James Gunn’s cast. There’s the scheming tech titan Lex Luthor, an easy stand-in for the world’s richest and least secure man, Elon Musk, and meta-megalomaniac Mark Zuckerberg. Then there’s Vasil Ghurkos, the president of Boravia, who is hell-bent on squashing his meek neighbor and is a doppelgänger for Vladimir Putin or perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, Superman leaps into the role of all that Trump despises: A determined defender of the downtrodden without regard for borders or citizenship, a proud alien of the sort that Trump might call a “death wish for our country,” and a superhuman USAID.
Gunn hasn’t shied away from inviting political interpretations, even as he’s refrained from directly linking the film to the White House. Ahead of its release, he reminded audiences in an interviewthat Superman is an “immigrant” who represents “the story of America,” and he predicted that some “jerks” “will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness.”
Sure enough, plenty of Trump’s defenders are smashing back.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld opined that Gunn was “creating a moat of woke,” as a televised graphic worried that the “Superwoke” movie embraced “pro-immigrant themes.” And former TV Superman Dean Cain asked, “How woke is Hollywood going to make this character? … How much is Disney going to change their Snow White? Why are they going to change these characters [to] exist for the times?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/12/superman-woke-controversy-immigration-trump/