{"id":18532,"date":"2026-02-02T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ice-out-bad-bunny-uses-grammy-speech-to-speak-out\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:20:34","slug":"ice-out-bad-bunny-uses-grammy-speech-to-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ice-out-bad-bunny-uses-grammy-speech-to-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018ICE out\u2019: Bad Bunny uses Grammy speech to speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-01T23:43:29-05:00\">Feb. 1, 2026, 11:43 PM EST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As awards season progresses, celebrities continue to speak out against the Trump administration&rsquo;s immigration crackdown &mdash; especially in Minneapolis. Though some stars have opted for a slight nod of resistance with <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2026-grammys-ice-protest-c792af6ccb8a4eda06d4dd5353fb51c1\">pins that say &ldquo;ICE out,&rdquo;<\/a> others have been more vocal in their stances.<\/p>\n<p>Upon accepting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hhvdOTvdpjs\">Grammy Award for Best M&uacute;sica Urbana Album<\/a> on Sunday night, Bad Bunny got straight to the point.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Before I say thanks to God, I&rsquo;m going to say ICE out,&rdquo; the Puerto Rican performer said as soon as he approached the podium with award in hand.<\/p>\n<p>After a standing ovation and cheers from the crowd, he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not savage, we&rsquo;re not animals, we&rsquo;re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.&rdquo;&#8291;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the artist has spoken out against the Trump administration&rsquo;s rhetoric against immigrants in the United States. Last year, he announced he would no longer tour in the U.S., which drew criticism from some right-wing commentators. <\/p>\n<p>Despite that pushback, Bad Bunny scored the headlining spot at this year&rsquo;s Super Bowl and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanbenito\/status\/1972478017307042265\">said he decided<\/a> to &ldquo;do just one date in the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The album Bad Bunny accepted the award for, &ldquo;Deb&iacute; Tirar M&aacute;s Fotos,&rdquo; also won Album of the Year, becoming the first primarily Spanish-language album to win the distinction in the ceremony&rsquo;s 68-year history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kathleen Creedon is a platforms editor for MS NOW. She previously worked as a web producer for Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/bad-bunny-ice-grammy-awards\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 1, 2026, 11:43 PM EST As awards season progresses, celebrities continue to speak out against the Trump administration&rsquo;s immigration crackdown &mdash; especially in Minneapolis. Though some stars have opted for a slight nod of resistance with pins that say &ldquo;ICE out,&rdquo; others have been more vocal in their stances. Upon accepting the Grammy Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}