White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed musician Dangerous Bunny after the worldwide Latin famous person’s viral condemnation of the Trump administration’s immigration insurance policies at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
Whereas accepting the Grammy for finest música urbana album, Dangerous Bunny, actual identify Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, stated, “Earlier than I say due to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out!” The upcoming Tremendous Bowl Halftime performer added, “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We’re people and we’re People.”
When requested about Dangerous Bunny’s acceptance speech on the White Home on Tuesday, Leavitt informed reporters, “I feel it’s very ironic and albeit unhappy to see celebrities who dwell in gated communities, with personal safety, [and] with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to spend defending themselves making an attempt to simply demonize legislation enforcement.”
The Trump spokesperson added, “You didn’t hear this similar form of uproar from celebrities in Hollywood when the earlier administration allowed an invasion of our nation’s borders and allowed harmless girls and women like Jocelyn Nungaray and Laken Riley to be killed and raped and murdered by the hands of people that ought to have by no means been in our nation within the first place.”
The political blowback in opposition to the Trump administration’s ICE operations throughout the nation got here to a head after the deadly shootings of two U.S. residents in Minneapolis. Federal brokers have additionally been accused of extreme drive, racial profiling, and tear-gassing protesters, together with an toddler baby.
Dangerous Bunny was amongst a number of artists, together with SZA, Shaboozey, Olivia Dean, and Billie Eilish, who spoke out in assist of immigrants amid the Trump administration’s controversial immigration agenda. Many additionally wore pins that learn, “ICE Out.”
“F–ok ICE,” stated R&B singer Kehlani as she accepted her Grammy for Greatest R&B Efficiency. Explaining her resolution to name out ICE at a later press convention, the musician stated, ” I feel we’ve an enormous accountability…we’re beneath a microscope and other people all around the world can see even simply after we open our mouths one time.”
She added, “So I feel we’ve the chance to make use of it correctly and there’s so many people {that a} group of us utilizing it correctly is fairly unstoppable.”
President Trump made clear he was not a fan of the Grammys blowback and slammed the award ceremony, together with its host Trevor Noah, whom he threatened to sue over remarks the comic made about Trump’s previous relationship with convicted baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I believed he did a horrible job on the Grammys. I believed the entire Grammys was horrible. I watched a part of it. It’s not watchable,” Trump stated within the Oval Workplace on Monday. “However he was a awful host. I’d say not as unhealthy as Jimmy Kimmel, however fairly shut.”
