Margaret Cho turned down Heated Rivalry over fears of ICE

Bi icon Margaret Cho says she isn't going to stop calling out President Donald Trump or his administration anytime soon, but the out comedian admits speaking out does have consequences, and in her case, it meant the loss of a dream role.

Cho was a guest last week on Matteo Lane and Nick Smith's podcast I Never Liked You, and she revealed that actions by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers "scared" her from accepting a part on television's steamiest show on ice, Heated Rivalry.

“Last year, I got a script for a pilot script for a show that I really loved, but it shot in Canada and I was so scared because I’m so vocal about hating ICE and hating this administration,” she said. "It was Heated Rivalry."

“I was like, I will get detained at the border and I will be put in ICE detention if I go, and I was struggling over it," said Cho. "I had to talk to all these people about it and I was super upset, and I said 'no.'"

The hosts gasped, and asked if she watched the series despite the disappointment, “I watched it," Cho said. "I hosted some rewatch parties and it kills me. Like, it kills me, and it’s all because of Trump.”

When asked if she might reconsider if she was invited to appear in the upcoming second season, she told the podcasters: “I asked them. We’ll see.”

Last month, Cho had some choice words about the Trump administration and didn't hold back.

"They have a kink. Their kink is cruelty," she said on another podcast. "They love to see the suffering of immigrants and trans people. And they want to put children in concentration camps — and poor people. It gets them off."

Cho went on to explain why she has faith this is a temporary problem, given the pendulum of politics.

"It does swing. And when it swings back, we will punish them. They will be put in prison,' she said. "We cannot let up."

Cho continued with that theme about imprisoning White House officials when their term ends but she also called out her fellow Democrats, too, for an overemphasis on, as she put it, "taking the high road" and "decorum."

"I want to believe in Democrats. I am a Democrat, but I also feel like there's this weird attachment to decorum and taking the high road, and none of that is gonna work," said Cho. "We need somebody, we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat. Like, we just need somebody who is willing to put them all in prison and, you know, do the right thing and put them all in prison."

This is not a new thing for Cho, who delivered her own "State of the Union" video address in 2017, advising viewers on how to survive what turned out to be the first Trump administration through art and protest.

On a podcast in March, Cho revealed she was asked "several times" to be on Trump's reality show, The Apprentice. "Donald Trump really loves you, please come on," she recalled in her conversation with host Julia Cunningham. She said no, despite being told Trump was a big fan of hers.

Watch Cho's conversation with the I Never Liked You podcast by clicking here.

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