Donald Trump uses clips from Selena Gomez video to justify his anti-immigrant narrative

In a new twist of events, Selena Gomez will not only have to deal with the claims of Spanish-speaking people for the video she posted earlier this week in which she was seen crying over the deportations of migrants by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE.

Critics of the video argued that the actress and singer's attitude was artificial, that it obeyed a commercial strategy to promote the film Emilia Perez'nominated for 13 Oscars, and to empathize in a forced way with the Latin public, but especially Mexican, after the enormous criticism of the film that come from that country.

The Trump administration takes water to its mill

In short, the 'haters' - from the production's perspective - called Selena Gomez a 'hypocrite', and the controversy began. However, a new element came into play when the White House released a video in which President Donald Trump's administration lashed out at the actress and titled it: "Mothers of illegal immigrant victims slam Selena Gomez: You didn't cry for our daughters".

In this material, three women are interviewed whose children were allegedly murdered by undocumented immigrants, and these testimonies are interspersed with fragments of Gomez's video that was already deleted by the actress herself, not without first expressing indignation with this comment: "Apparently it's not okay to show empathy for people".

White House video divides opinion

Of course, the opinions of the video were not long in coming and, as expected, the material divided users of platforms such as X where the confrontation of perspectives could be seen: "When you watch that video, it's actually hard to believe that it's genuine and real, because she's an actress," said one user, while another mentioned "I'm so happy that Trump won. I'm so glad this is one of the first bills to help with immigration"; and another said: "I feel like it's a ploy to trick people and generate sympathy for anarchy".