Did Antifa firebomb rapper Ice Cube's tour bus after they mistook it for an ICE vehicle on a Portland street? No, that's not true: As of September 27, 2025, investigators had not revealed any suspects or motive for the tire fire that damaged the front of the bus early Tuesday, September 23, 2025. There have been no news reports supporting the claim. The assumption that Antifa activists -- or anyone -- would have mistaken the bus for an ICE vehicle is not reasonable considering "ICE CUBE EVERYTHING'S CORRUPT" are in huge letters along the full length of the driver's side.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) where it was published on X by @dom_lucre on September 27, 2025. The caption above an image of the burned bus read:
🔥🚨BREAKING: Legendary rapper Ice Cube tour bus was bombed by Antifa after they mistook the Hip-Hop legend's bus for ICE authorities.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)
Ice Cube, who performed at Portland's Moda Center hours before the fire, issued a statement to the local media (archived here) through his publicist, but he did not share any suspicions that it involved a political motive or mistaken identity:
I'm not taking this incident as a personal attack. A coward like that would burn anybody's property that was out there at the time.
The incident wasn't significant enough to make it to the Portland Fire & Rescue X (archived here) or Facebook (archived here) feeds, which document car fires and other calls handled each day.
OregonLive.com quoted (archived here) Portland Fire spokesman Rick Graves saying the fire was limited to "the front passenger tire of a charter bus Tuesday morning at Southwest Broadway and Oak Street."
A Google news search (archived here) four days after the fire for the keywords "ice cube bus antifa portland" found no media reports that included the claim in any authoritative sources. There were several articles that quoted social posts -- mostly memes -- that included no sourcing.
The company that wrapped the bus for Ice Cube's 2025 national "Truth to Power" tour posted images (archived here) of their work on their website:
(Source: screenshot of carwraps.com by Lead Stories)
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which is under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, does have buses. This is the branding typically displayed on them:
(Source: screenshot of pbs.com by Lead Stories)
