Amber Rose just unleashed on Ariana Grande, blasting the singer for urging fans to skip out on work, school, and shopping as part of this big “ICE Out” protest happening nationwide today. The whole thing exploded after Rose hopped on a live stream with Sneako on Kick last night, ripping into Grande for pushing people to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid all the heat from those deadly raids in Minnesota. It’s turned a already tense political mess into a straight-up celeb beef, and her clip’s already pulled in over 625,000 views on X in no time. Fans are divided, memes are everywhere, and here we are on January 30, 2026 a day that was supposed to be all about the protests but now it’s overshadowed by this drama.
It started when Grande posted on her Instagram Story yesterday, sharing this infographic that basically said to her 372 million followers:
“NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING”
to crank up the pressure on senators about ICE policies. She boosted stuff from activists in New York City and even Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, who tweeted something like,
“ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.”
A bunch of other big names piled on too Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal, Jenna Ortega, Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg, and Olivia Rodrigo all chimed in with support, especially after the backlash to what ICE has been doing. Grande even tossed out a Deportation Defense Hotline number for folks to report ICE sightings, linking it to calls for disarming or straight-up dismantling the agency.
None of this protest stuff popped up out of thin air. ICE’s “Operation Metro Surge” has been ramping up in Minnesota since late 2025, and it’s already led to at least eight deaths tied to federal agents this year alone. Back on January 7, an ICE agent named Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renée Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom of three and U.S. citizen, during a routine traffic stop in south Minneapolis. DHS claimed it was self-defense, saying she tried to run him over, but videos from bystanders picked apart by places like The New York Times show the agent wasn’t even in her way, and she had no weapon. People who saw it said the agents just stood around instead of helping her, and polls are showing most folks think it was way over the top and unjustified.
Then, on January 24, Customs and Border Protection agents took out Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse from the VA, right in the middle of protests in Minneapolis’ Whittier area. Officials say he came at them with a gun and wouldn’t comply, but footage from CNN and The Guardian tells a different story: he was holding a phone, got pepper-sprayed, they took whatever he had, and shot him regardless. Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison ripped into it, calling for full investigations. All this is part of over 1,200 arrests in just a week, which lit the fuse for the “ICE Out” movement put together by groups like students at the University of Minnesota and this national outfit called 50501, with stuff going down in 46 states.
A tweet from X.
Rose wasn’t pulling punches in her takedown, especially hitting on the class angle. She goes,
“She’s probably worth $250-300 million, out here telling regular people not to go to work to protest ICE. Like, girl, shut the f**k up! You gonna hand over your cash so they can afford to skip a day? Quit telling folks to do that.”
As a Trump backer who even spoke at the 2024 RNC, Rose also went after Eilish for throwing shade at Nicki Minaj over her Trump connections, saying stuff like,
“Billie Eilish can sck a dck… she’s r*tarded.”
That last bit with the slurs kicked off a ton of backlash right away, pulling the convo from the actual issues to calls of ableism.
The internet’s a total mess over it. Ariana’s stans are clowning Rose’s “relevance” and looks in the comments, while Rose’s crew is hyping her for calling out “tone-deaf” celebs. That post from @BuzzingPop on X racked up 963,000 views, sparking all these arguments about celeb activism clashing with real working-class problems it kinda echoes those old “Day Without Immigrants” boycotts that were meant to highlight immigrant workers’ impact on the economy but ended up putting low-wage jobs at risk.
