White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took a swipe at Bad Bunny after he criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the Grammys stage.
After winning the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album, the singer - who was born Benito Antonio Martinez - told his fans: 'Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say: ICE out.'
'We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans,' said the Puerto Rican singer, who is the Super Bowl's halftime performer.
While Trump has previously scrutinized the NFL's controversial decision to award the Super Bowl LX halftime show to Bad Bunny, it's understood that the president may be making a U-turn on his decision to skip the event, insiders told the Daily Mail.
As the world waits to see if Trump will watch Bad Bunny's performance live at the Levi's Stadium in California this Sunday, Leavitt eviscerated the singer's 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.'
Trump told 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.
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.
