Trump administration border czar Tom Homan blasted an app that tracks ICE agents, as well as CNN for promoting the app, calling the network disgusting while adding, “It’s only a matter of time before ICE officers are going to be ambushed by some nut.”

The app, called ICEBlock, tracks the locations of ICE agents, asking its users to pinpoint where ICE agents are. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, “It’s unacceptable that a major network would promote such an app that is encouraging violence against officers who are trying to keep our country safe.”

Earlier on Monday, CNN anchor John Berman stated, “As the Trump administration steps up ICE raids and mass deportations, one tech developer is pushing back with an app designed to track ICE activity in real time. It’s called ICEBlock and it’s controversial, to say the least.” He asked CNN’s Clare Duffy how the app worked.

“I talked with Joshua Aaron, who is the longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said he really wants it to be an early warning system for people about the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers,” Duffy replied. “So he says he does not want people interfering with those officers’ activity, but he does want people to be able to avoid them altogether if they want. So you open the app — it looks like a map — and users can tap the map to report an ICE sighting in their area. And then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that sighting will get a push alert. This is a free iPhone app. It is anonymous.”

Asked about the app and CNN’s reporting by Fox News’ Lawrence Jones, Homan replied,  “It’s simply disgusting, and any network that covers that is disgusting as well. So I’m hoping DOJ steps in here and see if they crossed that line, impeding federal law enforcement officers. … Assaults against ICE is (sic) up over 500%.”

“Now you got an app that’s going to tell where ICE operatives are going to be,” he continued. “It’s only a matter of time before ICE officers are going to be ambushed by some nut, like what happened in LA, throwing a Molotov cocktail, throwing bricks at these officers. This is just disgusting at every level, so I hope DOJ dives in this deeply, because ICE is concentrating on public safety threats and national security threats. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. This shouldn’t be an issue anybody is against. They’re already in a dangerous job going after the worst of the worst. These guys are putting their lives on the line every day going after the worst of the worst, and a national security threat, and this app makes it much more dangerous. It’s incredible that those who enforce law, all of a sudden they’re the bad guys, the ones who break the law, they’re victims. It’s disgusting.”

.@RealTomHoman slams a new app that tracks @ICEgov agents as 'DISGUSTING!' pic.twitter.com/eKnfqTPKuZ

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 30, 2025

Related: ICE Officials Slam CNN For Promoting App That Helps Illegals Dodge Federal Agents

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell ripped into legacy media on Sunday, accusing outlets of fueling the “Iranian propaganda machine” because they were so desperate to smear President Donald Trump that they were willing to accept any collateral damage that followed — even if the majority of the damage landed on American service members.

Parnell showcased a headline from The Washington Post that cast doubt on the success of the recent strikes carried out by American service members against Iranian nuclear sites — strikes that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump, backed by multiple intelligence sources, had declared to be unqualified successes.

“The mainstream media is engaging in a weaponized smear campaign against America & our incredible troops.
The Fake News are knowingly using incomplete, out-of-context & flat-out false intelligence ‘assessments’ to seemingly do the bidding of the Iranian propaganda machine,” Parnell posted along with a screenshot of The Washington Post’s story. “This isn’t journalism, it’s political activism.”

The mainstream media is engaging in a weaponized smear campaign against America & our incredible troops.
The Fake News are knowingly using incomplete, out-of-context & flat-out false intelligence “assessments” to seemingly do the bidding of the Iranian propaganda machine.
This… pic.twitter.com/fIAScWp4x7

— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) June 29, 2025

The screenshot he shared read, “Breaking News: U.S. intelligence obtained private communication among Iranian officials, discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they expected.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a similar tone at the press conference he held late last week, sharing detailed information about the strikes and whether or not the intended targets had been “obliterated” before he turned on the media.

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“You, and I mean specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard, like in your DNA and in your blood, to cheer against Trump. You want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of the strikes,” Hegseth said. “You have to hope they were not effective. Let’s take half-truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful.”

“Time and time again, classified information is leaked or peddled for political purposes to try to make the president look bad. And what’s really happening is you’re undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission, set back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents would have dreamed,” he continued.