Karoline Leavitt Critiques Bad Bunny’s ICE Incident at the Grammys

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently criticized Bad Bunny following his comments about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Grammy Awards.

After securing the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album, the artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez, used the moment to address his fans by saying, “Before I thank God, let me say: ICE out.”

The Puerto Rican singer, who is set to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, asserted, “We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are human beings, and we are Americans.”

Although President Trump has previously criticized the NFL’s decision to feature Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl LX halftime show, sources informed the Daily Mail that he might reconsider his earlier stance and choose to attend the event.

As anticipation builds around whether Trump will watch Bad Bunny perform at Levi’s Stadium in California this Sunday, Leavitt strongly rebuked the artist’s Grammy speech.

She said on Tuesday: ‘I think it’s very ironic and frankly sad to see celebrities who live in gated communities, with private security with millions of dollars to spend protecting themselves, trying to demonize law enforcement, public servants who work for the United States government to enforce our nation’s laws.’

She added that ‘you didn’t hear this same type of uproar from celebrities in Hollywood when the previous administration allowed an invasion of our nation’s borders and allowed innocent women and girls like Jocelyn Nungaray and Laken Riley to be killed, raped, and murdered at the hands of people who should have never been in our country in the first place.’

She said the uproar was over ‘law enforcement who are simply trying to do their jobs to remove violent predators.’ 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked Tuesday to respond to Puerto Rican singer and Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny’s anti-ICE comments at Sunday’s Grammys

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny told the Grammy audience ‘ICE out!’ as he accepted the award for Best Musica Urbana Album at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Bad Bunny’s comments on Tuesday 

Members of ICE and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have been involved in two deadly incidents in Minneapolis, which have prompted widespread protest and criticism of Trump’s mass deportation plan. 

‘There was no uproar from Hollywood and the elitist crowd at the Grammys then,’ Leavitt said of the Biden era. ‘But there is now, and I think that speaks to the unfortunate irony that we’re seeing in Hollywood.’

President Donald Trump is also no fan of Bad Bunny, telling the New York Post in an interview last month that he thought the NFL made a mistake in choosing Bad Bunny – and also Green Day – as the Super Bowl performers.  

‘I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,’ the president said.  

Trump also said he wouldn’t be making a repeat trip to the Super Bowl this year due to it being played on the West Coast.

‘It’s just too far away,’ the 79-year-old president explained. 

Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will be played at the home of the San Francisco 49ers, in Santa Clara, California.

Turning Point USA, the conservative organization of the late Charlie Kirk, has half-time counterprogramming planned featuring MAGA mainstay Kid Rock and country singers Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. 

On Grammy night, it wasn’t Bad Bunny who received the brunt of Trump’s criticism, but rather the show’s emcee, former Daily Show host Trevor Noah. 

Directly after the Grammys aired, President Donald Trump complained about host Trevor Noah (left) who opened the show by making an Epstein Island joke about the president. Bad Bunny (right) was critical of ICE 

Noah opened the show by making an Epstein Island joke about the president.

‘That is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland,’ Noah said. ‘Which makes sense, I mean, because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out on with Bill Clinton.’ 

The joke prompted a furious Truth Social post, with Trump calling Noah a ‘total loser’ and threatening to sue him. 

‘The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards,’ Trump said. ‘Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. WRONG!!!’ 

‘I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false and defamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the Fake News Media,’ the president added.