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Billie Eilish Uses MLK Award Stage to Denounce Trump Policies and ICE

The speech followed a DHS rebuke of her anti-ICE posts.

Overview

  • On Jan. 17 in Atlanta, Eilish accepted the MLK Jr. Beloved Community Environmental Justice Award from the King Center.
  • In prepared remarks, she criticized the Trump administration and ICE, saying many no longer feel safe in their homes or on their streets.
  • She warned about cuts to climate resources and harms from fossil fuels and animal agriculture, linking environmental justice to community safety.
  • After the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent earlier in January, she posted Instagram Stories calling ICE a terrorist group and shared the names of 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025.
  • DHS publicly condemned her social posts as “garbage rhetoric,” while her advocacy includes a pledged $11.5 million donation to climate and food-equity groups through The Changemaker Program.