Entrepreneur Martha Stewart felt compelled to weigh in on the state of the nation after being pressured by her granddaughter to say something.
The homemaker extraordinaire isn’t known to get political. That changed Monday when Stewart shared a text message she receiver over the weekend from her 14-year-old granddaughter Jude Stewart. That note said “I’m not sure it’s excusable to not be speaking up right now.”
Stewart didn’t share anything else from their conversation, but it inspired her to weigh-in on ICE operations in Minnesota following Saturday’s killing of an ICU nurse.
“My granddaughter wrote this to me yesterday she is fourteen and sensitive to what’s going on in our country as we all should be,” Stewart wrote on Instagram. “I am disheartened and sad each and every day that we cannot demonstrate our sympathy for the beleaguered, 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.”
Stewart’s aversion to talk about politics led a CNN interviewer to refer to her in 2011 as a successful businesswoman and active Republican. The 84-year-old businesswoman and TV personality set the record straight by clarifying she’s “always been a registered Democrat.”
On Instagram, she called for change.
“Things must and have to change quickly and peacefully,” she concluded in her post.
Stewart subtly endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, but is no stranger to herself competing with President Trump. In 2005, the pair hosted different versions of the reality show “The Apprentice.”
Trump wrote Stewart a note when her show was shut down after one season that read “I knew it would fail as soon as I first saw it,” according to Newsweek.
Trump hosted “The Apprentice” from 2004 to 2015.
