Martha Stewart’s Granddaughter Called Her Out For Not Speaking Up About ICE. Here’s The Text.

One member of Gen Alpha wasn’t going to let her famous grandma be a beta.

On Monday, Martha Stewart publicly spoke out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Instagram — and credited a blunt text message from her 14-year-old granddaughter, Jude Stewart, as the catalyst.

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

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

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

In overlaying text over Jude’s remark, Stewart made her feelings about President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdowns and autocratic tendencies crystal clear.

“My granddaughter wrote this to me yesterday she is fourteen and sensitive to what is going on in our country as we all should be,” Stewart said before digging in.

“I am disheartened and sad each and every day that we cannot demonstrate our sympathy for the beleaguered,” Stewart wrote. “That we are told immigrants, which most of us are or descended from, are unwelcome, that we cannot show our frustration in peaceful demonstration and that we can be attacked and even killed by Federal troops.”

She added, “Things must and have to change quickly and peacefully.”

Although Stewart isn’t a super political celebrity, she did publicly endorse former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. She was, however, pretty cagey with the New York Times about who she planned to vote for in the 2020 presidential election between former President Joe Biden and Trump.

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

Despite Stewart’s 2020 vote being unclear, it would have been pretty weird if she had voted for Trump.

The two had a major falling-out in the early aughts after her spinoff of Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” flopped. Her version of the show, which debuted in 2005, lasted just one season and led to Trump publicly smearing her. In response, Stewart joked with the late comedian Joan Rivers on her daytime talk show about how she wished Trump’s defunct steak company actually slaughtered him instead of cows.

Although Stewart’s distaste for Trump is pretty apparent, we sincerely wonder how she feels about her buddy Snoop Dogg DJing at his 2025 presidential inauguration.