Martha Stewart shares a text from her granddaughter denouncing her silence at ICE:

A member of Generation Alpha wasn’t going to let his famous grandmother be a beta.

On Mondays, Martha Stewart He spoke publicly against Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Instagram and attributed the catalyst to a blunt text message from his 14-year-old granddaughter, Jude Stewart.

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“Granddaughter Jude wrote me a note yesterday,” Stewart said in the caption of her post. “I took it seriously…”

The image the lifestyle mogul used for her post was a screenshot of a text message conversation she had with Jude. Although the end of Stewart’s chat is edited, Jude’s response gives enough context clues for most to realize that the two were probably talking about Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old intensive care nurse. who was shot dead by federal agents during an ICE protest in Minneapolis on Saturday.

“I’m not sure it’s excusable not to talk right now,” Jude wrote to her grandmother.

By overlaying text over Jude’s comment, Stewart made his feelings about President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration measures and autocratic tendencies very clear.

“My granddaughter wrote this to me yesterday, she’s fourteen years old and she’s sensitive to what’s going on in our country, as we all should be,” Stewart said before delving deeper.

“I feel heartbroken and sad every day that we cannot show our sympathy for the beleaguered,” Stewart wrote. “Being told that immigrants, which most of us are or are descended from, are not welcome, that we cannot show our frustration in peaceful demonstrations, and that federal troops can attack and even kill us.”

And he added: “Things must and have to change quickly and peacefully.”

Although Stewart is not a political super-celebrity, she publicly supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. However, she was quite cautious about the New York Times about who he planned to vote for in the 2020 presidential election between former President Joe Biden and Trump.

“My personal conundrum is that my friends know who I am and what I stand for, but in terms of owning the magazine,” Stewart said at the time. “How do you take sides when 50 percent of your readers may be on one side and 50 percent on the other? It’s difficult. That’s my answer.”

Even though Stewart’s 2020 vote was unclear, it would have been pretty strange if he had voted for Trump.

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The two had a big fight at first after their spinoff of Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” flopped. Their version of the show, which debuted in 2005, lasted only one season and led Trump to publicly defame her. In response, Stewart joked. with the late comedian Joan Rivers on her daytime talk show about how she wished Trump’s defunct meat company would actually kill him instead of cows.