The Onion could have written this story, but it’s real. From Nashville Scene:

Downtown kitchens shuttered over the weekend to avoid immigration agents in at least three locations owned by conservative restaurateur Steve Smith.

Smith is “a Trump supporter and donor” who owns several Nashville restaurants. He co-owns one with Kid Rock, who’s also a staunch Trump supporter.

At the instruction of managers, restaurant employees without legal citizenship status left the premises at The Diner, Honky Tonk Central and Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse during a primetime rush on Saturday night to avoid detention by ICE agents. Locations, already struggling to provide full service, suffered through at least Sunday due to fears from employees who did not want to risk arrest by returning to work.

If this had appeared in The Onion, we’d offer a wry chuckle at the clever writing staff’s absurd conceit of ultra-conservative Trump supporters hiring undocumented workers only to then hide them from Trump’s ICE goons. Brilliant satire! we’d exclaim.

It’s become simply impossible to out-satire MAGA.