US EditionBillie Eilish Slams ICE and Trump Administration in Scathing Speech
Billie Eilish linked immigration enforcement, civil rights, and environmental issues in her MLK award speech, urging wealthy individuals to donate, with $11.5 million pledged to climate justice groups.
- On Jan. 17, Billie Eilish, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer, accepted the 2026 MLK Jr. Beloved Community Environmental Justice Award presented by the King Center at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta and denounced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump.
- Following the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good, 37-year-old woman killed in Minneapolis, Eilish condemned ICE on Instagram after DHS called her posts `garbage rhetoric`.
- Reading from a tiny slip of paper, Eilish said, `To be honest, I really don't feel deserving`, linking environmental justice and migrant justice while criticizing climate resource cuts.
- The Department of Homeland Security publicly rebuked Billie Eilish's posts as `garbage rhetoric`, while Mónica A. Ramírez and honourees stressed ICE's fear spreading in communities.
- Over the past year, Eilish's activism grew, pledging $11.5 million from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to climate and food-equity organisations and urging billionaires to give away wealth.
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As she received a prize for her commitment to ecology, Billie Eilish took the opportunity to convey a political message. The singer did not hesitate to criticize the Trump administration and the violence of the ICE, who was recently responsible for the death of a woman.
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