Grammys host Trevor Noah made a number of digs at Donald Trump throughout Sunday night’s ceremony, joking “this might be my last time I get to host anything in this nation”.
Noah, the previous host of The Daily Program, went back to host the Grammys for a 5th successive year, supervising a program where Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX were the greatest winners on the night.
In his opening monologue, Noah referred to Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Rihanna along with the brand-new administration in the White Home.
The South African comic kept in mind how the Grammy winners are figured out after a vote of 13,000 members of the Recording Academy and likewise joked that the vote consisted of “20 million prohibited immigrants”.
The 40-year-old later on stated: “There’s been a couple of modifications in Washington. So I’m gon na delight in tonight due to the fact that this might be the last time I get to host anything in this nation.”
Recently, President Trump‘s brand-new immigration policy was executed, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids resulting in the arrest of 1,179 individuals throughout significant cities in the United States.
In other places, Noah’s speech did produce some debate after he made a joke about Shakira and her native nation Colombia.
” Three-time Grammy winner Shakira remains in your home,” Noah explained. “The best thing out of Colombia that isn’t a Class A felony.”
On X/Twitter, lots of people implicated Noah of bad timing provided the hazard of deportations presently dealing with Latin American immigrants in the United States.
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” Trevor Noah making a migration joke in the middle of mass deportations happening,” someone tweeted.
” That unsavory joke about prohibited immigrants was so unneeded. Do much better Trevor Noah,” included another.
” We, the Colombians, are ill of being dealt with like bad guys #Grammys 2025 @Trevornoah we are waiting on an apology,” a 3rd tweeted.
” Trevor Noah’s jokes were so horrible and unneeded [sic],” a 4th composed.
The event follows Colombia backed down in the face of Trump’s tariff threats over immigrant deportations.
Trump threatened Colombia with “definitive retaliatory steps” consisting of tariffs and visa sanctions after Colombia rejected entry to 2 U.S. flights on military airplanes bring individuals who were supposedly residing in the nation without legal authorization.