Fox News anchor: ‘Sobbing’ Selena Gomez ‘going for another Academy Award’

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum questioned the sincerity of a now-deleted video posted by Selena Gomez, in which the actress criticized President Trump’s immigration policies.

“The actress Selena Gomez, going for, I guess, another Academy Award or Golden Globe nomination here, was sobbing on Instagram earlier today about what she says she’s seeing out there,” MacCallum said on her program Monday. She referred to Gomez’s emotional video, where the singer tearfully claimed, “All my people are getting attacked,” in response to Trump’s plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

MacCallum noted that Gomez later removed the video from Instagram but had defended her emotional response before deleting it, saying, “Apparently it’s not okay to show empathy for people.”

During the segment, MacCallum asked former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) for his thoughts, adding, “We’ve seen some of this backlash from other folks, including on The View. But then we hear governors in Massachusetts and Colorado saying, ‘Well, you know, so far we’re okay with the people that you’ve kicked out of the country. Thank you very much.’”