Well, last week we talked about the Oscars, and this week, it’s the Grammys. And I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Please, God, kill me now, before I have to hear about the Grammys. Otherwise, I’ll be forced to drown this out by sticking my fingers in my ears and whistling Dixie, which may give people the impression that I support the Confederacy when, in fact, I think holding your fellow human beings in bondage, branding and flogging them before selling their families is a horrible thing, and if I were forced to choose between life as a slave and watching the Grammys, I would pretend to think about it, then suddenly break my chains and escape through the alligator-infested swamps of Mississippi, never to return to slavery until the award show was over.”
Okay, maybe that’s not exactly what you’re thinking. I mean, only a degenerate would think something like that. Even just saying it out loud is morally disgusting, though obviously not as bad as the Grammys.
But this year, the Grammy award show was not just the usual self-celebration of a collection of semi-talented drug addicts who set disgustingly explicit words to simplistic and atonal music. This year we got to hear what these addicts think about politics. How great is that?
For instance, Billie Eilish, who won “Best Performance by a Dumpy Person with a Weirdly Skewed Face who Sings as if Even She Doesn’t Want to Hear her Crappy Music,” denounced ICE agents’ arrest of illegal migrants, by saying, “No one is illegal on stolen land.”
In response, the native American Fugawe tribe requested Eilish return her $3 million Los Angeles mansion, since it stands on land that belongs to them. The tribe promised to repay Eilish by burning her heart as a sacrifice to the Great Spirit, after they had devoured her body in a traditional indigenous ceremony. Eilish politely refused as she ran screaming from the award show, explaining that if everyone in California gave their land back, the Native Americans would return the state to poverty, primitivism and savagery, and that’s Gavin Newsom’s job.
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Bad Bunny won this year’s Grammy for Best Album by a Puerto Rican Drag Queen. Mr. Bunny immediately demanded that Federal immigration officers stop enforcing Federal Immigration law or else. ICE officers responded by crying out in agitated, high-pitched voices, “Oh no, Bad Bunny is angry at us, whatever shall we do?” then went back to work.
Now, the Super Bowl is this Sunday, and Mr. Bunny is scheduled to do the half-time show at that all-American display of manhood by wearing a dress and denigrating America. So NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked to comment on Bunny’s speech. Goodell said, “We at the NFL gave the half-time show to Mr. Bunny to make a strong statement, namely that we have so much money we really don’t give a rat’s ass what our audience thinks, and we will continue to mock the deeply-held beliefs of ordinary Americans while dining on lobster, caviar and champagne served on the naked backs of former Athletes, whose brain injuries have rendered them useless for anything but acting as furniture for the people who got rich off destroying them. Enjoy the show.”
Singer Kehlani won this year’s Grammy for “Most Desperate Attempt to Extend an Evanescent Fifteen Minutes of Fame by Writhing Around Virtually Naked so No One Would Notice She has no Talent.” 
Kehlani also denounced ICE, saying, “It is important for artists to speak out, because our opinions matter to the sort of brain-dead 12-year-olds who listen to this crap. I for one want to inspire the young minority men in our audience to stand up to law enforcement agents with violent and aggressive tactics, which is going to work out great for you. And when you’re in prison, we’ll have your back, or actually some muscle-bound thug in Gen Pop will probably have your back, but at least you can think about how much money we’re making for inspiring you to take action.”
Now, personally, I thought these speeches were boring, conformist, ignorant, destructive, and foul-mouthed displays of misbehavior. Or maybe that was the songs. No, it was the speeches. Or maybe the songs. Whatever.
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What Do You Call A Gathering Of Self-Absorbed, Semi-Talented Drug Addicts? The Grammys.

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The Native American tribe whose ancestral land includes Billie Eilish’s Los Angeles mansion has something to say about her Grammys virtue signaling, when the singer declared, &#8220;no one is illegal on stolen land.&#8221; 
“As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land,” a spokesperson for the Tongva tribe <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15521241/billie-eilish-grammys-ice-speech-home-native-tribe.html">told</a> The Daily Mail, noting that the singer had not yet reached out regarding the ownership rights of her $3 million Hollywood Hills home.
“Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property… we do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country,” the spokesperson went on. “It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles Basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory.” 
The 24-year-old singer has been mocked and called a hypocrite ever since spouting her leftist talking points during the awards show on Sunday night.
“As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything, but that no one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said from the stage as fellow celebrities cheered and nodded in the crowd.
“&#8217;F*ck ICE’ is what I wanna say,” she added.
Social media commenters have been pointing out the hypocrisy of Eilish’s statements.
“You cannot simultaneously believe that (1) all borders are fake and should not be policed, and (2) that land can be ‘stolen.’ This is one of the most braindead beliefs a person can hold,” one person posted on X. 
“Oh, gee, this ‘stolen land’ nonsense again? Maybe she should step up and forfeit her Southern California mansion since it is supposedly on ‘stolen land,&#8217;” Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href="https://x.com/RonDeSantis/status/2018342732972843355">shared</a>.
This isn’t the first time Eilish voiced opinions that got her mocked. In November, the singer called Elon Musk a “f*cking pathetic p*ssy b*tch coward” for not giving away more of his money to her preferred causes.
“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties,” she said at the time.

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Over the weekend, we learned about a very powerful, very rich cadre of people who think they have inordinate control over the direction of our nation&#8217;s politics.
I&#8217;m speaking, of course, about the Grammys.
This year’s Grammys were filled with our usual celebrity geniuses spouting their usual performative politics to the cheers of their fellow celebrities.
The reason I&#8217;m pointing this out is because if you ever wonder what the room is like where special people hash out what our culture ought to look like, it looks like the Grammys.
What makes the Grammys and so many of our award shows fascinating is that they are an inside look for the rest of the world of what these people actually sound like at dinner parties.
I know a lot of the people in Hollywood. I&#8217;ve spoken with many of them. Far too often, we see people patting themselves on the back for their performative version of the most extreme radical politics in our society.
That’s the reason we are so annoyed when it shows up on our television. When people tune into the Grammys or the Oscars or any other awards show, what they expect is a celebration of the culture that we all share, the music or films that we all enjoy.
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Instead, what we usually get is a cocktail party punctuated by some people who share lifestyles holding up the trophy. These are the most protected, wealthy people in our society, and the people who share that lifestyle are people who tend to share their politics.
And they act as if we, the little people, are privileged because they are sharing their politics with us.
Sunday night at the Grammys, virtually every performer decided they were going to lead by ripping into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration. 
Obviously, there are other things going on in the world, and sometimes that’s the focus. Just a year or two ago, virtually everyone at the Grammys said something about the supposed evils of the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip.
Now, of course, the Iranian government has been mowing down protesters, perhaps by the tens of thousands.
Not one single word about that at the Grammys.
But lots of words for Immigration and Customs Enforcement doing its job in Minneapolis.
Bad Bunny, whose real name is apparently Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, and who was nominated for six Grammys, won an award for his album.
He’s the same guy who is supposed to perform at the Super Bowl, apparently wearing a dress, which is exactly what we all want.
(Because if you&#8217;re showing your nine-year-old son the Super Bowl, where men are men and athletic performance and grit and determination and heart are the keys to victory, what you really want is a dude gallivanting around in ladies&#8217; garments during halftime.)
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Bad Bunny proceeded to rip into ICE, which is precisely what we need to hear from this human.
“Before I say thanks to God, I&#8217;m going to say ‘ICE out,” he declared to thunderous applause. “We&#8217;re not savages. We’re not animals. We&#8217;re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans. And also, I want to say to people I know it&#8217;s tough not to hate on these days. &#8230; The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.”
Deep words. Love is more powerful than hate. That is deep verbiage. I can see why he is such an acclaimed songwriter and performer.
I love how celebrities really believe that they are Michael Scott in “The Office.” They think they can walk into the middle of a room and shout, “I declare bankruptcy,” and it is legally effective.
If you go into a room with all of your fellow celebrities protected by armed security outside, where every single human who comes into that arena has to have their background checked, you can sit there and tell the rest of America that no protection is available — for them.
Billie Eilish —whom I would guess not only has armed security but a palatial estate surrounded by a fence because she has stalker problems— said, “nobody is illegal on stolen land.”
By stolen land, I assume she means all of planet Earth, since populations have been moving since the beginning of recorded human history.
Billie Eilish does look significantly less unhappy since she started dating a dude. At least, she’s got that going for her.
Olivia Dean chimed in, “I guess I want to say I&#8217;m up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant, I wouldn&#8217;t be here.”
I should point out that a huge percentage of Americans have ancestors who came here at some point.
Oh, the bravery of these people. They all think alike. They all act as if they have similar lifestyles, and they are speaking to you, the little people, the people who don&#8217;t have armed security at your palatial estates or have people pay you millions upon millions of dollars to sing songs written by a large coterie of other people.
You need to hear their voices. You need to hear their words. These are the tastemakers. These are the people shaping the culture for our children.
Gloria Estefan compared ICE to the Holocaust.
You can&#8217;t just compare something to the Holocaust. Picking up individual illegal immigrants and sending them back to their home countries is not the same as an entire war infrastructure set up to systematically murder millions of people of a particular race.
America is not Nazi Germany. You know what you didn&#8217;t see in the middle of World War II? A bunch of artists getting up on red carpets, talking about how terrible the Nazis were — in Berlin.
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And of course, we got Trevor Noah hosting the Grammys, where he was his usual smarmy, obnoxious self, ripping Nicki Minaj for the great sin of having gone to the White House to promote the Trump accounts, which are savings accounts being set up for American children. “She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues,” he mocked to cheers from the audience.
I love that all the people cheering when he mocks Nicki Minaj for “discussing serious issues” act as though they are discussing serious issues.
They sing songs that are overproduced in autotune, and then they go on stage and pretend they know something about policy.
Noah dropped what he thought was a joke about Epstein Island and Trump and suggested that the president had been to Epstein Island. Trump fired back, threatening to sue Trevor Noah.
Why is any of this really important? Because when you have all the cultural tastemakers who are all pushing the same politics, that is likely to seep out into the broader culture, and sometimes these politics can go viral and turn into a brain worm that eats the American body politic.
You saw this, for example, with the trans issue, pushed by every cultural arbiter in American society. For a decade, this was promoted as the way to decide whether a person was virtuous or not, whether they were willing to say that a boy could be a girl and a girl could be a boy. 
It does make a difference when the entire cultural apparatus mobilizes behind an issue.
But there is something else here that is also worthy of note. Celebrities have their own social circle that tends to mirror itself. It is, in fact, a hallway of mirrors. You&#8217;re not welcome in a lot of these social circles if you have different politics. You cannot succeed if you don’t mirror their politics.
The story of Hollywood in its most depraved form, writ small, would be the Diddy “White Parties.” That was Hollywood in its most depraved form, writ small. That was a microcosm of what Hollywood is. That was the most extreme version of what&#8217;s happening in that cultural milieu.
But we are supposed to be privileged to listen to what these kinds of people have to say.

The 68th Annual Grammy Awards

The Grammys Hallway Of Mirrors: How Celebrity Performative Politics Infects Culture

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Singer Billie Eilish is being mocked online for comments she made about “stolen land,” especially as followers point out that she just purchased a $14 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
The 24-year-old “Bad Guy” singer stated where she stands on trending issues while accepting the Grammy Award for Song of the Year on Sunday night.
“As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything, but that no one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said from the stage as fellow celebrities cheered and nodded in the crowd.
“’F*ck ICE’ is what I wanna say,” she added.
Social media commenters pointed out the hypocrisy of what she was saying.
“Land cannot be stolen if no one is illegal,” Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh wrote.
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“The woman is a blithering idiot. Of course, if she really means it, then she’ll happily hand over her multi-million pound Malibu beachfront home to illegal migrants,” British journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer <a href="https://x.com/JuliaHB1/status/2018238097817743532">shared</a>. “Which she won’t, because it’s all just silly celeb posturing.”
“You cannot simultaneously believe that (1) all borders are fake and should not be policed, and (2) that land can be &#8216;stolen.&#8217; This is one of the most braindead beliefs a person can hold,” another person <a href="https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/2018385874807931128">agreed</a>.
“Any white person who does a public ‘stolen land’ acknowledgement should immediately give his or her land to native Americans. Otherwise they don’t mean it,” Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) <a href="https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2018188911932277230">posted</a> to X.
“Meanwhile, she’s chilling in her … Hollywood Hills fortress with armed guards and a moat of privilege. If the land’s so stolen, sis, hand over the keys to the nearest tribe or migrant family,” YouTuber Brandon Tatum <a href="https://x.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/2018291441437470927">wrote</a>. “Preach less, practice more.” 
The anti-ICE sentiment was strong at the Grammy Awards, with several celebrities showing up wearing “ICE OUT” or “BE GOOD” pins to broadcast their beliefs. Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Bieber sported the buttons, as did Billie Eilish, Kehlani, Samara Joy, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Antonoff.
Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny devoted his Grammys acceptance speech to protest ICE.
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say: ICE out,” the singer, whose legal name is Benito Ocasio, said from the stage during the awards ceremony Sunday night.
This isn’t the first time Eilish voiced opinions that got her mocked. In November, the singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/millionaire-billie-eilish-curses-out-elon-musk-for-not-solving-world-hunger-with-his-wallet">called Elon Musk</a> a “f*cking pathetic p*ssy b*tch coward” for not giving away more of his money to her preferred causes.
“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties,” she said at the time.

Billie Eilish Roundly Mocked For ‘Stolen Land’ Comments At Grammys

Billie Eilish Mocked For 'Stolen Land' Comments At Grammys

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The 2026 Grammy Awards were supposed to celebrate music. Instead, they became another stage for Hollywood’s favorite performance: moral superiority without consequences.
This year, celebrities like Billie Eilish, Teddy Swims, and Justin Bieber donned <a href="https://variety.com/2026/music/news/grammys-ice-out-pins-billie-eilish-kehlani-bon-iver-1236648441/">“ICE Out”</a> pins and used their acceptance speeches to condemn Immigration and Customs Enforcement and lecture Americans about justice, compassion, and humanity. From their gilded seats inside Crypto.com Arena, they urged unity and resistance all while remaining safely insulated from the real world consequences of the policies they champion.
That is the part no one on that stage ever acknowledges.
The celebrities grandstanding about immigration do not live in border communities. They do not compete for jobs with illegal labor. They do not deal with overwhelmed schools, strained hospitals, or rising crime. They do not have to explain to grieving families why their loved ones died because basic immigration enforcement was treated as immoral.
Where was the outrage from Hollywood when Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant? Where were the pins, speeches, and standing ovations then? Silence. Because acknowledging victims like her would complicate the narrative, Hollywood prefers slogans over substance.
When Billie Eilish declared that no one is illegal on stolen land, critics pointed out the obvious contradiction. She lives in a multimillion dollar estate guarded by private security. If land ownership is illegitimate, why is she not handing over the keys. Virtue is easy when it costs nothing.
Hollywood’s moral theater is not about helping people. It is about signaling status. Proving you belong to the correct side of elite opinion while never having to live with the fallout.
That is why the reaction to Nicki Minaj was so revealing.
Minaj did not wear a pin. She did not chant slogans. She did not follow the script. Instead, she attended the world premiere of Melania at the Kennedy Center, has worked alongside President Trump on Trump Accounts, and openly calls herself his number one fan. She chose independence over approval, and Hollywood is punishing her for it.
During the Grammys, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/article/trevor-noah-grammys-nicki-minaj-kendrick-lamar-79ee508f2e15ec56b2b4826b787b6913">host Trevor Noah turned Minaj into a punchline</a>, joking that she was at the White House with Donald Trump. The audience laughed not because it was clever but because it signaled who was acceptable to mock.
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The hostility did not stop there. At a MusiCares gala, Billy Porter publicly dropped an<a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/markelibert/billy-porter-slams-nicki-minaj-trump-support"> F bomb</a> when asked about Minaj’s political views, declaring shame on her and others like her. In Hollywood, tolerance ends where independent thought begins.
The message was clear. You are free to speak as long as you agree.
Nicki Minaj did not see the light because Hollywood showed her anything new. She saw the truth Americans have known for years. The entertainment industry demands conformity not compassion. Obedience not courage.
Real Americans are tired of being lectured by people who will never pay the price for the policies they promote. They are tired of selective outrage, empty slogans, and celebrities who cry injustice while living lives untouched by its consequences.
The Grammys did not expose ICE. They exposed Hollywood.
And the more celebrities shout, the clearer it becomes. Americans are not rejecting compassion. They are rejecting hypocrisy.
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Janiyah Thomas is a GOP strategist and former Black Media Director for President Trump’s 2024 campaign. She also contributed to the Trump Vance Inauguration media strategy and previously served as Media Relations Director for the Republican National Convention.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The Grammys Didn’t Expose ICE. It Exposed Hollywood Hypocrisy.

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Country star Jelly Roll responded to questions about current political controversies by saying he’d prefer to stay out of it &#8212; for now.
The 41-year-old celeb made the remarks at the 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony, where he took home three trophies.
When asked about the topic of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the red carpet, Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, managed not to answer the question directly. “So I can tell you that people shouldn’t care to hear my opinion,” DeFord said. “You know, I’m a dumb redneck. I haven’t watched enough.” 
He went on to describe himself as “disconnected” from current events.
“I grew up in a house of, like, insane pandemonium. Like, I didn’t even know politics were f*cking real until I was in my mid-20s in jail. Like, that’s how disconnected &#8230; when you grew up in a drug addict household,” he went on. “You think we, like, had common calls about what’s happening in rural politics? Like, we’re just trying to find a way to survive, man.”
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DeFord did promise he’d “have a lot to say about” ICE on social media in the coming days and told fans they would get his thoughts “loud and clear.”
The “Need a Favor” singer also spoke openly about his Christian faith during his Grammys acceptance speech. 
&#8220;They&#8217;re going to try to kick me off here, so just let me try to get this out. First of all, Jesus, I hear you, and I&#8217;m listening. Lord, I am listening, Lord. Second of all, I want to thank my beautiful wife. I would have never changed my life without you,” Jelly Roll said while becoming emotional. “I would have ended up dead or in jail. I would have killed myself if it wasn&#8217;t for you and Jesus. I thank you for that.”
“There was a time in my life, y&#8217;all, that I was broken. That&#8217;s why I wrote this album. I didn&#8217;t think I had a chance, y&#8217;all,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There was days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human.&#8221;
&#8220;There was a moment in my life that all I had was a Bible this big, and a radio the same size, and a six-by-eight-foot cell,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I believe that those two things could change my life. I believe that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life.&#8221;
While Jelly Roll didn’t take a stance on ICE, there were several celebrities at the Grammys who did, opting to wear “ICE OUT” buttons with their outfits. Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Bieber sported the buttons, as did Billie Eilish, Kehlani, Samara Joy, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Antonoff.
Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny devoted his Grammys acceptance speech to protest ICE enforcing immigration laws.

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Jelly Roll Breaks Rank, Doesn’t Criticize ICE At Grammys

Jelly Roll Breaks Rank, Doesn't Criticize ICE At Grammys

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Recording artist Bad Bunny, who is slated to perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl next Sunday, used the Grammys stage to promote anti-ICE messaging.
The Puerto Rican-born performer won the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.” 
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say: ICE out,” 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. 
“We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans &#8230; the hate gets more powerful with more hate,” he continued. “The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So, please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. Yeah. We don’t hate them. We love our people, we love our family, and that’s the way to do it, with love. Don’t forget that, please.”
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Several other Grammys attendees were spotted wearing “ICE OUT” and “BE GOOD” pins to show their support for anti-ICE activism. This is not the first time Ocasio has voiced his opinion on the matter. 
Ocasio previously referred to ICE agents as “motherf***ers” and “sons of b****es” in a video he posted to Instagram.
The three-time Grammy Award-winner said during an interview that he didn’t book any tour stops in the United States because he was worried ICE agents would target concert attendees.
“There was the issue of — like, f***ing ICE could be outside. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” he said.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended selecting Bad Bunny as the halftime performer at Super Bowl LX after significant backlash following the announcement last fall.
“It’s carefully thought through,” Goodell said of the performance, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-commish-gives-update-on-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-amid-backlash">reported</a>. “I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. It’s pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching.”
“We’re confident it’s going to be a great show,” the commissioner added. “[Ocasio] understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.”

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Hollywood leftists couldn’t help but take shots at rapper Nicki Minaj for recently breaking ranks and coming out in support of President Donald Trump.
Grammys host Trevor Noah mocked the recording artist while presenting at the annual event on Sunday. 
“Nicki Minaj is not here,” he said during his opening monologue. “She’s still at the White House with Donald Trump, discussing very important issues.”
Noah went on to do a Trump impression and reference Cardi B’s song “WAP,” an acronym that stands for &#8220;wet a** p*ssy.&#8221; He said while trying to sound like the president, “‘Actually Nicki, I have the biggest ass! Everybody’s saying it. I know they say it’s you, but it’s me. WAP, WAP, WAP. Look at it. Look at it, baby.&#8217;”
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The gathered celebrities, many wearing &#8220;ICE OUT&#8221; buttons and <a href="https://www.news18.com/movies/hollywood/billie-eilish-slams-ice-during-grammys-victory-speech-no-one-is-illegal-on-stolen-land-aa-9874518.html">whining about</a> how “no one is illegal on stolen land,” cracked up at the bit. 
Noah may not be laughing for long, however. His digs at Minaj were bad enough, but he also made insinuations about Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which led to the president threatening legal action.
“Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-total-loser-trevor-noah-over-grammys-epstein-joke-threatens-lawsuit">posted</a> on Truth Social after the event. “It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$. Ask Little George Slopadopolus, and others, how that all worked out. Also ask CBS! Get ready Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you!”
Minaj has come under fire after coming out in support of Trump in recent months. Most recently, the “Super Bass” singer appeared at an event with the president and called herself his “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nicki-minaj-says-shes-the-presidents-number-one-fan-at-trump-accounts-summit">number one fan</a>.”
“The hate, or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. And it’s going to motivate all of us to support him more,” Minaj said of Trump last week.
“We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him,” she continued. “He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him. Amen.”

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President Donald Trump said Monday he is considering legal action against 2026 Grammy Awards show host Trevor Noah over a jab the comedian directed at the president and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 
While hosting the annual awards show on Sunday, Noah joked that Trump wanted Greenland because he could no longer visit Epstein’s private Caribbean island. In a Truth Social post shortly after the broadcast, Trump said he would be sending his lawyers after Noah. 
“The Grammy Awards are the WORST, virtually unwatchable! CBS is lucky not to have this garbage litter their airwaves any longer. The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115999513470647838">wrote</a>. “Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. WRONG!!!”
Earlier in the broadcast, while announcing the song of the year award, Noah joked that it was “a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland,&#8221; adding that &#8220;because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.”
Trump, whose Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-releases-millions-more-epstein-files?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Justice+Department+Releases+Millions+More+Epstein+Files">released</a> millions more Epstein-related files Friday, has repeatedly said he has never been to Little Saint James, the island where Epstein was accused of sex trafficking young girls. 
“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,” Trump continued. “Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$. Ask Little George Slopadopolus, and others, how that all worked out. Also ask CBS! Get ready Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you!”
In December 2024, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-wins-millions-in-defamation-suit-against-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos">won</a> a $15 million defamation settlement from ABC News and George Stephanopoulos after Stephanopoulos incorrectly said the president had been found “liable for rape.” Trump also secured a $16 million settlement from CBS News after suing the network over the editing of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. 
Last year, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">filed</a> a $10 billion libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal after it published an article claiming he wrote a 2003 birthday letter to Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman.
Wild claims about Trump and Epstein circulated on social media Friday after the release of three million more Epstein-related documents. The Justice Department said many of the claims originated in the lead-up to the 2020 election and have no credibility.
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DOJ said. “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

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Country singer Morgan Wallen will not be submitting his top-selling album, “I’m the Problem,” for Grammy Awards consideration, despite its massive popularity with fans.
The album is currently in the top position on the Billboard 200 chart for the 11th non-consecutive week, per <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-not-submitted-2026-grammys-1236047754/">Billboard</a>, but that didn’t sway the recording artist to submit any of the 37 songs on the album for consideration. 
“I’m the Problem” included massive hits such as “Lies, Lies, Lies,” “What I Want” featuring Tate McRae, “Love Somebody,” and the title track, “I’m the Problem.”
As of Thursday morning, Wallen has not issued a statement on why he’s not submitting the album or any of the songs. There’s speculation that it’s because the country star felt snubbed by the Grammys before as he was never nominated until being acknowledged for the hit single “I Had Some Help,” which he made with Post Malone, in 2025.
The duo got nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Country Song thanks to that song. Ultimately, &#8220;II MOST WANTED&#8221; by Beyoncé featuring Miley Cyrus won best duo and “The Architect” by Kacey Musgraves took home best song.
This all comes after Wallen was ostracized from the music community in 2021 after video footage of him using a racial slur went viral. The country singer apologized at the time, but the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards disqualified Wallen from eligibility for awards that year. The ban has since been lifted.
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Since then, Wallen took home Entertainer of the Year in 2024 at the CMAs and won three ACM awards.
While most artists do submit for the Grammys, in the past, some big names have opted not to, usually after feeling like they’d been snubbed. Both The Weeknd and Drake have opted to not submit albums to the Grammys for this reason, as the outlet noted.
Wallen is fine with going against the mainstream. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morgan-wallen-causes-stir-for-abruptly-exiting-snl-stage-get-me-to-gods-country">made headlines</a> in March after appearing on “Saturday Night Live” and abruptly exiting the stage before all the other cast members. The singer later posted a photo of a private plane to social media and included the caption, “Get me to God’s country.”
He followed that up by selling merchandise bearing the same message.
The 68th Grammy Awards are scheduled to air on CBS on February 1, 2026.

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Despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/beyonce">Beyoncé</a>’s fans being overjoyed about her winning her first ever <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/grammy-awards">Grammy Award</a> for Album of the Year, plenty of other award show winners were confused. They failed to recognize how the 43-year-old pop singer nabbed the night’s biggest prize for “Cowboy Carter,” a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/country-music">country album</a>, especially against such stiff competition.
Country artist John Rich weighed in with his thoughts on awards shows and how they picked winners. The former Big &amp; Rich member said the whole thing is rigged and has nothing to do with actual talent.
“Folks are asking me ‘how do music award shows work?’” Rich posted on X.
He continued, “Labels/publishers all have blocks of votes. They make deals with each other &#8216;you vote for mine, we&#8217;ll vote for yours&#8217; type thing. It has ZERO to do with who made the best music, thus, Beyonce with &#8216;Country album of the year.&#8217; Nice, right? The same thing is true with the CMA&#8217;s, ACM&#8217;s, Billboard, etc&#8230;all work exactly the same. Last night, the Grammy&#8217;s outed themselves in a big way.”
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Folks are asking me &quot;how do music award shows work?&quot; Labels/publishers all have blocks of votes. They make deals with each other &quot;you vote for mine, we&#39;ll vote for yours&quot; type thing. It has ZERO to do with who made the best music, thus, Beyonce with &quot;Country album of the year.&quot;…
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The replies were full of people saying they weren’t even slightly surprised.
“The Grammys just proved what we already knew—it&#8217;s all about backroom deals, not real talent. Meanwhile, actual country artists are out here making real music and getting ignored. Absolute joke,” one person <a href="https://x.com/basterecords/status/1886413467269107987">wrote</a>.
“Yes, sadly, it&#8217;s not about the music anymore. Also performance spots are paid. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s the same people performing over and over again. Like a vanity show of the richest,” another comment <a href="https://x.com/CariCole/status/1886414842963062790">said</a>. “&#8230;For lifelong musicians, who really care about the music—it is soul-crushing. Unbearable to watch.”
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly also weighed in on Beyoncé’s big win in a clip that was then <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@megynkellyshow/video/7467316522902506783?lang=en">posted</a> to TikTok.
“Beyoncé, she’s won 33 Grammys, including for Best Country album last night. Frank Sinatra got 11 Grammys. The Beatles won 7. Judy Garland, 2. Beyoncé: 33. The most overrated artist of all time.”
“We’re not buying it,” Kelly added after reading Rich’s tweet out loud. “We know what happened and how she got this award.”
Other nominees for the highly coveted Album of the Year Award included Andre 3000, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Jacob Collier, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, and Taylor Swift.
Beyoncé is the most nominated person in Grammys history, with 99 total nominations.

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John Rich Explains How Beyoncé Nabbed Album Of The Year, Says It’s ‘ZERO’ To Do With ‘Best Music’

John Rich Explains How Beyoncé Nabbed Album Of The Year, Says It's 'ZERO' To Do With 'Best Music'

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During Sunday&#8217;s 2025 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/grammys">Grammy Awards</a> ceremony, several artists promoted woke ideology, including winner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Alicia Keys</a>, who claimed diversity, equity, and inclusion (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei">DEI</a>) is actually a good thing. 
The 44-year-old singer took to the stage after winning the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award. 
“This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices we&#8217;ve seen on this stage,” Keys said during her acceptance speech. “We’ve seen on this stage talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view, and it changes the game.”
The singer added, “DEI is not a threat, it’s a gift.”
“And the more voices, the more powerful the sound. When destructive forces try to burn us down, we rise from the ashes like a phoenix, and as you see tonight, music is the unstoppable language that connects us all,” Keys continued, urging viewers to have “empathy” and “compassion.”
Keys’ comments appeared to be directed at President Donald Trump, who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-wages-all-out-war-on-dei">speaking out against DEI</a> initiatives that ignore qualifications or aptitude while emphasizing factors like race and gender. 
Many X users shot back against Keys, saying DEI is unfair. 
“She is correct; [DEI] is a gift to people who did not earn it,” one reply <a href="https://x.com/jscottb32/status/1886403109385048260">said</a>.
“Keyword ‘gift.’ No job should be a gift. Should be earned,” another person <a href="https://x.com/racingdc9/status/1886384323441402247">echoed</a>.
“Meritocracy built the West, not DEI,” a third person <a href="https://x.com/ArchangelMihai/status/1886390367626362986">wrote</a>. “When people are chosen based on race and identity rather than skill and talent, society collapses. ‘Diversity’ isn’t the problem &#8211; forced diversity at the expense of excellence is.”
She wasn’t the only one who got political during the Grammy Awards. 
Lady Gaga won for best pop duo/group performance and used her acceptance speech to advocate for “trans people.”
“It’s such an honor to sing for all of you. I just want to say tonight that trans people are not invisible,” Gaga <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlkYa3-wmTg">said</a> as the crowd gave her a standing ovation.  “Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love. Thank you.”
Pop singer Shakira seemed to reference President Trump’s recent crackdown on illegal immigration, <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/02/shakira-dedicates-grammys-win-immigrant-brothers-sisters-1236276197/">shouting out</a> her “immigrant brothers and sisters” during her acceptance speech for best Latin pop album. The Colombian singer continued, &#8220;You&#8217;re loved and worth it, and I&#8217;ll fight with you.&#8221;
Chappell Roan performed her song “Pink Pony Club” at the event, and her dancers waved the pink, white, and blue transgender flag. Before entering the venue, she spoke with GLAAD about Trump&#8217;s executive order proclaiming that the government would only recognize two biological sexes.
Roan, who identifies as “demisexual,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/02/02/chappell-roan-grammys-speech/78169854007/">told</a> the outlet: &#8220;It&#8217;s brutal right now, but trans people have always existed, and they will forever exist, and they will never no matter what happens take trans joy away, and that has to be protected more than anything.&#8221;
“I would not be here without trans girls,” Roan continued. “So just know that pop music is thinking about you and cares about you and I’m trying my best to stand up for you in every way that I can.”

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Alicia Keys Mocked For Saying ‘DEI Is Not A Threat, It’s A Gift’ During Grammys Speech

Alicia Keys Mocked For Saying 'DEI Is Not A Threat, It's A Gift' During Grammys Speech

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