{"id":2564045,"date":"2026-02-03T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-ironic-karoline-leavitt-blasts-anti-ice-celebs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:44:49","slug":"very-ironic-karoline-leavitt-blasts-anti-ice-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-ironic-karoline-leavitt-blasts-anti-ice-celebs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Ironic\u2019: Karoline Leavitt Blasts Anti-ICE Celebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvery-ironic-karoline-leavitt-blasts-anti-ice-celebs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2564045&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House Press Secretary Karoline leavitt criticized celebrities who publicly attack ICE agents enforcing immigration laws, calling thier stance ironic given their wealth and private security. She argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">law enforcement<\/a> is simply doing its job and pointed to a double standard, noting that celebrities were silent about <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >violent crimes committed<\/a> at the hands of peopel who should not have been in the country under the prior administration.The piece highlights a broader backlash among celebrities, including visible protests at the Grammys with ICE OUT pins and speakers on the red carpet. it also notes Bad Bunny dedicating his Grammy acceptance speech to opposing ICE,Olivia Wilde at the Sundance Film Festival calling ICE a criminal organization,Peter Dinklage reciting a poem for an anti-ICE activist,and Bruce Springsteen releasing a protest song referencing ICE and Minneapolis.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-narration-container=\"true\" id=\"post-body-text\">\n<p><span>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not hold back on celebrities who publicly disparage ICE agents enforcing immigration law, noting how they are often the worst sorts of hypocrites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;It&rsquo;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 just demonize law enforcement public servants who work for the U.S. government to enforce our nation&rsquo;s laws,&rdquo; she said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;You didn&rsquo;t hear this same type of uproar from celebrities in Hollywood when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-one-year-in-trump-has-already-decimated-dcs-failed-status-quo-12\/\" title=\"Just One Year In, Trump Has Already Decimated DC&#039;s Failed Status Quo\">previous administration allowed<\/a> an invasion of our nation&rsquo;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&rsquo;ve never been in our country in the first place,&rdquo; Leavitt added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She said law enforcement is just &ldquo;trying to do their jobs&rdquo; and noted how celebrities were silent when these innocent people were murdered. &ldquo;I think that speaks to the unfortunate irony,&rdquo; Leavitt added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PressSec<\/a>: &ldquo;It&rsquo;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 just demonize law enforcement public servants who work for the U.S. government to enforce our&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PZqnA6nS9V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/PZqnA6nS9V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2018764267386781874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Her comments come days after celebrities were out in force at the Grammys wearing ICE OUT and BE GOOD pins to protest ICE operations. Several attendees also commented on the situation from the stage and the red carpet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey Bieber, sported the buttons, as did Billie Eilish, Kehlani, Samara Joy, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Antonoff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, who will be performing at this year&rsquo;s Super Bowl halftime show, devoted his Grammy acceptance speech to protesting ICE enforcing immigration laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;Before I say thanks to God, I&rsquo;m going to say: ICE out,&rdquo; the singer, whose legal name is Benito Ocasio, said from the stage during the awards ceremony Sunday night. The crowd of celebrities responded with thunderous applause. &ldquo;We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are American,&rdquo; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It wasn&rsquo;t just the Grammys, either. At Sundance Film Festival last month, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Worry Darling&rdquo; actress Olivia Wilde suggested that ICE is a criminal organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t go another day accepting this as our new norm. It&rsquo;s outrageous. People are being murdered, and I don&rsquo;t want to normalize seeing that violence&mdash;on the internet or on film. It&rsquo;s hideous. If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out and delegitimize this criminal organization, then that&rsquo;s what we should be doing,&rdquo; she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/olivia-wilde-natalie-portman-criticize-161351146.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFpbHl3aXJlLmNvbS9uZXdzL3RoZS1sZWZ0cy1wZXJmb3JtYXRpdmUtb3V0cmFnZQ&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHb4SQlShleWpLv5AcMo-Gkg7Mu8np1GqfAMtJFlRfllLvNjab03YdfxW7974iy_CXfIVg9doush6JZxFZucTeiasW1edUnlP6Uo1KLLxINyvHY2F4AFfXW69nHiYrwYBwJNaKZ0cEEW-DMvuyFVEGFTtPLXmdw13dxLFA3R52vk&amp;guccounter=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;Game of Thrones&rdquo; actor Peter Dinklage <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/game-of-thrones-actor-recites-cringeworthy-poem-dedicated-to-anti-ice-activist-renee-good?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Game+of+Thrones%E2%80%99+Actor+Recites+Cringeworthy+Poem+Dedicated+To+Anti-ICE+Activist+Renee+Good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>recited<\/span><\/a><span>  an extremely cringeworthy poem dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist killed by an ICE agent during an altercation in Minneapolis. Singer Bruce Springsteen released a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-releases-cringe-protest-song-about-minneapolis?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bruce+Springsteen+Releases+Cringe+Protest+Song+About+Minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>protest song<\/span><\/a><span>  last month, which included the lyric, &ldquo;ICE out of Minneapolis.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leavitt slams celebrities for attacking ICE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2564046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/Karoline-Leavitt.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5344,8364,3813,72836,72837],"class_list":["post-2564045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-celebrities","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-karoline-leavitt-2","tag-very-ironic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/Karoline-Leavitt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564050,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564045\/revisions\/2564050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}