{"id":231468,"date":"2025-10-17T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231468\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:21:07","slug":"pop-star-renee-rapp-delivers-expletive-filled-rant-against-ice-and-donald-trump-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231468\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop star Rene\u00e9 Rapp delivers expletive-filled rant against Ice and Donald Trump | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chart-topping pop star and actor Ren\u00e9e Rapp has excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Donald Trump<\/a> in an expletive-filled onstage rant.<\/p>\n

Rapp was performing in Portland<\/a>, Oregon, where Trump is attempting to send national guard troops, claiming that the city is a \u201cwar zone\u201d. There have been continuous protests outside the city\u2019s Ice facility in recent months.<\/p>\n

Rapp told the concert audience that as she was performing in Portland, \u201cat the same time, some other people who shouldn\u2019t fucking be here are \u2026 So let\u2019s just make a few things abundantly fucking clear. Fuck Ice. Fuck this administration. And fuck Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is one of the fastest rising pop stars in the US, earning a UK No 1 album in August for her second album Bite Me, which reached No 3 in the US. She is also a successful stage and screen actor, taking a lead role in the Broadway production of the Mean Girls musical and in TV series The Sex Lives of College Girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rapp joins a number of musicians opposing Ice as immigration crackdowns intensify in the US under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a new chain, it say: Fuck Ice,\u201d declared Chance the Rapper on his recent album, Star Line. Meanwhile, Finneas \u2013 the singer and brother of Billie Eilish, who produces her music \u2013 said of an Ice protest he attended in Los Angeles: \u201cTeargassed almost immediately at the very peaceful protest downtown. They\u2019re inciting this.\u201d Tyler, the Creator, Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong and Kehlani also decried Ice\u2019s activity in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the country music star Zach Bryan debuted a snippet of a new song with lyrics including: \u201cIce is gonna come bust down your door \u2026 Kids are all scared and all alone.\u201d The US Department of Homeland Security criticised him<\/a>, with assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, telling Bryan to \u201cstick to Pink Skies, dude\u201d, referring to one of his previous hits. The department also mockingly soundtracked an Ice enforcement video with a Bryan song.<\/p>\n

This week, the indie record labels Epitaph and Anti- called on Spotify to stop carrying advertisements for Ice. \u201cArtists and fans deserve platforms that reflect the values of the culture they sustain,\u201d each label said in a shared statement. Earlier in the week, Spotify defended carrying the ads, saying the \u201ccontent does not violate our advertising policies\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump\u2019s attempts to deploy national guard troops in the left-leaning Portland were blocked<\/a> by a federal judge in Oregon, extending a previous order.<\/p>\n

Federal agents have clashed with protesters during the months-long protests, making arrests and firing non-lethal rounds and teargas, while local police have separately made arrests. The protests have often been whimsical and absurdist, featuring inflatable costumes and naked bike rides.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration said it would \u201ccrush violent radical left terrorism\u201d with the troop deployment, but Oregon<\/a> officials have countered that claim. \u201cThere is no insurrection, there is no threat to national security,\u201d said governor Tina Kotek, while Portland mayor Keith Wilson said \u201cwe will not engage\u201d with Ice and affirmed Portland\u2019s \u201csanctuary city\u201d status for immigrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe actions of certain federal officers continue to be deeply disturbing to our community,\u201d Wilson said in a statement, \u201cand the lack of accountability and transparency for what appears to be unconstitutional behaviour against individuals expressing their rights will only serve to deepen the divide between this facility and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chart-topping pop star and actor Ren\u00e9e Rapp has excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-231468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}