Bill O'Reilly got a text from a liberal journalist friend demanding he watch a viral video of an ICE agent confronting a woman on a plane.
O'Reilly checked it out – and what he found about the people behind that video should end any remaining debate about what the media is actually doing.
What O'Reilly found out about that video is why journalists can never be trusted on ICE again.
Liberal Journalists Used Staged TikTok Skit to Smear ICE Agents
A TikTok account called @tonyandangel posted a scripted skit on showing a masked man in a bulletproof vest ordering a passenger named "Juan Garcia" off a plane.
No disclaimer or label. Just footage designed to look like a real ICE enforcement action – posted with the caption "ICE agent removes US citizen from airplane. CRAZY!"
It wasn't real. The "airplane" was a rented film set from a company called Network Media that produces identical fake cabin interiors for TikTok content creators.
The people on screen were actors. The whole thing was manufactured.
Bill O'Reilly figured that out immediately. His liberal journalist friends did not.
"Right after that dropped I got all kinds of texts from my liberal friends," O'Reilly said. "See! See! See! See! See!"
O'Reilly took five minutes to verify it. His journalist friends took five seconds to forward it.
"It's a phony," O'Reilly said. "They're actors. It's a set that they used. They had to spend some money on this. It was a complete phony. No disclaimer that we could find. None. Just threw it on up."
Media Bias Against ICE Has Now Cost Agents Their Safety
O'Reilly didn't receive that video from amateurs. He received it from working journalists – people whose entire professional identity rests on verifying facts before spreading them.
"Millions of people believed it was true," O'Reilly said, "including – and I mean, among my friends who texted me are journalists, sophisticated people."
Those journalists weren't sharing the video to investigate it. They were sharing it as ammunition. The caption alone – "ICE agent removes US citizen from airplane" – was the entire point. They wanted it to be real. They wanted the outrage and to create a narrative.
This isn't a one-time lapse. DHS published a data release in June 2025 showing ICE agents were facing a 500% increase in assaults during enforcement operations.
DHS published a separate list debunking false media narratives about ICE – everything from smears about racial profiling to fabricated stories about detention conditions.
The same pattern runs through all of it. A story drops that makes ICE look monstrous. Journalists and activists amplify it before anyone checks a single fact. The truth comes out days later – buried, ignored, or buried beneath new allegations.
The Fake ICE Video Network That Mainstream Media Refuses to Investigate
The @tonyandangel account didn't make one video. It produces dozens of scripted scenarios using the same rented airplane set – all designed to look like real law enforcement encounters, all built to drive engagement and outrage.
The account had posted multiple similar skits using the same set. The people in the ICE skit appeared in other skits on the same account.
Someone spent real money building a fake airplane set to produce content that smears federal law enforcement. The goal is to turn public opinion against Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts by fooling unsuspecting social media users.
The journalists who received that video and forwarded it without checking aren't victims of sophisticated deception. They're the distribution network. Their credentials – the institutional weight of being a "journalist" – gave the fake video legs it never deserved.
O'Reilly did in five minutes what they refused to do at all. He checked.
That gap – between what journalists claim to be and what they actually did with a staged TikTok skit – is the real story. They don't fact-check content that confirms what they already believe. They spread it. Every single time.
Sources:
- LifeZette News Staff, "Bill O'Reilly Catches Liberal 'Journalists' Red-Handed Sharing Fake TikTok ICE Plane Meltdown," LifeZette, April 6, 2026.
- Bill O'Reilly, "The Age of Deceit," BillOReilly.com, March 29, 2026.
- Lead Stories, "Fact Check: Skit of ICE Agent Removing a U.S. Citizen From a Plane Is NOT Real," Lead Stories, March 2026.
- Department of Homeland Security, "ICE Agents Now Face 500% Increase in Assaults Against Them," DHS.gov, June 20, 2025.
- Department of Homeland Security, "DHS Debunks Fake News Media Narratives from June," DHS.gov, June 30, 2025.
