Jun 13
Devin Franco Shocks the Internet Again with Claim He Tipped off ICE About an 'Old Friend'
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Adult entertainer Devin Franco shocked fans when he went full MAGA last year. Now he's created controversy again with a claim that he sicced ICE on "an old friend" for asking Franco to consider marrying a foreign national as a means of helping that person get a green card.
Franco posted about the move in a June 10 tweet – since deleted – saying that the "old friend" in question had "disassociated himself from me for being MAGA," Australian newspaper the Star Observer reported.
The gay porn star claimed that the "old friend" had "tried to convince me to marry his 'helper' just to get him his green card.
"He put his planned scheme in writing through text and even provided a photo of his 'helper' as if to show him off as property and proposed I use him for labor for three years until he got his legal status," the post continued.
"Wish I could be there when he gets a knock on his door," the post added.
"The adult performer, known for his roles in films such as 'C*mDumpSl*ts' and 'Hung F*ckers,' came out publicly as a Donald Trump supporter the day before the 2024 US presidential election," the Star Observer recalled, "and has faced criticism for his far-right political views and use of racist language".
Despite the tweet being taken down, Gay Twitter was quick to weigh in, with some speaking out against Franco while others inveighed against him as well as other gay porn performers who have adopted similar stances and rhetoric.
"User MlGUELMIGS pointed out Devin's – whose real name is Jesse Tanner Morris – hypocrisy, seeing as has a criminal record too," the Star Observer recounted.
The newspaper noted that "Franco has remained defiant, dismissing criticism of his political views as 'fascism' and accusing detractors of attempting to harm his livelihood due to political differences."
Franco threw himself into a public embrace of MAGA ideology last November with a comment of "100% agree!" to a tweet in which "a gay guy who's left the Left" declared that "today's Democrat Party.... [has] become a war-hungry censorship machine, cynically using identity politics and media manipulation to divide us - and lawfare to eliminate its political opponents."
On his own X feed, Franco followed up with a repost of a video titled "Brave PATRIOT fucks AR-15!" in which a man in a MAGA hat called people on the left "cucks" and proceeded to insert himself into a sex toy affixed to a long gun - using, he claimed, "liberal tears" as a sexual lubricant.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.