Chrissy Teigen Says White House’s Response to Selena Gomez’s Immigration Raids Post Is ‘Loser Behavior’

Chrissy Teigen is defending Selena Gomez after her tearful video about the Trump administration’s mass deportations led to a response video from the White House.

“I love her,” the Cravings author told TMZ of Gomez on Monday night (Feb. 3). “Empathy should never be frowned upon or made fun of, and the fact that the White House has enough time to even make a statement or a video about it is f—ing preposterous and disgusting and lame and loser behavior.”

Gomez’s original video featured the “Rare” singer in tears, promising to do what she she can to help undocumented Mexican nationals in the midst of the immigration raids. “I’m so sorry. All my people are getting attacked, the children,” Gomez said through sobs in the since-deleted video that can be seen here. “I don’t understand. I’m so sorry, I wish I could do something but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”

In response, the White House posted a clip to X, in which the clips of Gomez are interspersed with videos of mothers whose children were reportedly killed by undocumented immigrants. In the video, the women are critical of the actress and tell her: “You don’t know who you’re crying for.”

In addition to the White House, Republican Utah politician Sam Parker also reacted to Gomez’s video by suggesting she should be deported because her grandparents originally came to the United States illegally. “Thanks for the laugh and the threat,” Gomez responded on Instagram.

A National Institute of Justice-funded report shared in September found that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.”