The Introspective

From protest pins to symbolic language and onstage commentary, this year’s Globes reflected broader social and political conversations.

Dante Belcher

Jan 14, 2026

As political tensions continue, this year’s Golden Globes—which honors film and TV—featured criticism of the ongoing Trump administration as trade wars and anti-immigrant sentiment continue.

“And the Golden Globe for best editing goes to … the Justice Department,” host Nikki Glaser said during her opening monologue.

She then criticized CBS—which aired the Golden Globes—over CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulling a 60 Minutes segment in December highlighting abuses at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a mega-prison in the center of the country. A previous report from The Introspective highlighted a deal reached with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to send deportees and those deemed violent to El Salvador, including American citizens and legal residents who are imprisoned.

“The award for best editing goes to CBS News,” Glaser said.

“Yes, CBS News: America’s newest place to see B.S. News.”

Weiss addressed the pulled segment in December, telling staff that the story did not “advance the ball,” alleging that other news outlets had already reported on the prison abuses.

“While the story presented powerful testimony of torture at CECOT, it did not advance the ball,” she said, according to NPR.

“This is 60 Minutes. We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera,” she continued.

“To run a story on this subject two months later, we need to do more.”

This comes after a previous Introspective report detailing former 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens announcing his resignation last year, alleging that he would “not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes.”

“The show is too important to the country,” he said in the report.

“It has to continue, just not with me as the executive producer.”

Anti-ICE Pins

Following Renee Good—a U.S. citizen—being shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during an operation in Minneapolis, many celebrities wore pins labeled “ICE OUT” and “BE GOOD,” protesting ongoing anti-immigrant sentiment.

“We’ve got, literally, storm troopers running around terrorizing, and as much as I love all this, I don’t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn’t happening,” actor Mark Ruffalo told Entertainment Tonight.

“We have a president who says the laws of the world don’t apply to him and we can rely on his morality, but he has no morality, so where does that leave us? Where does that leave the world?”

He later criticized U.S. involvement in Venezuela, which led to airstrikes in Caracas—the country’s capital—and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were sent to New York to face drug and weapons charges, while calling Trump a “rapist.”

“We’re in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded. He’s telling the world that international law doesn’t matter to him. The only thing that matters to him is his own morality, but the guy is a convicted felon, a convicted rapist,” he said.

White House Assistant and Director of Communications Steve Cheung acknowledged Ruffalo’s remarks, saying he is “one of the worst actors in the business.”

“More impressively, he’s an even worse human being by spewing outright lies because deep down inside,” Cheung wrote on X.

“He hates himself for knowingly subjecting the public to his god-awful performance.”

Actor Jean Smart said it was hard to consider working following Good’s killing.

“Everything’s kind of a little bit overshadowed with what’s going on in our country. I feel like we’re kind of at a turning point in this country,” she said.

“I hope people can keep their heads. It’s going to take a lot of courage and a lot of restraint. It’s very concerning.”

Comedian Wanda Sykes wore a “BE GOOD” pin, telling Variety that people need to “speak up.”

“Of course this is for the mother who was murdered by an ICE agent, and it’s really sad. I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up,” she said.

“We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down, because it’s just awful what they’re doing to people.”

The #BeGood campaign was launched in January following Good’s death and the prior killing of Keith Porter, who was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.

“Every day, everywhere, regular people are being good: keeping kids safe when they walk to school, filming fathers who are being disappeared from their workplaces, donating to fundraisers to support organizations who are keeping us safe,” read a description of the campaign, obtained by The Introspective.

“The #BeGood campaign is launching following reports that 2025 was one of ICE’s deadliest years in two decades, and in response to the current administration’s $100 million wartime recruitment campaign aimed at expanding enforcement capacity.”

The protests at the Golden Globes came after 1,000 protests were held throughout the country over the weekend following Good’s killing.

“Under Donald Trump’s leadership and Kristi Noem’s direction of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE has become more aggressive, more reckless, and more deadly — with 2025 marking its deadliest year in two decades. The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, is not an isolated failure but the predictable outcome of a political agenda that rewards force and dehumanization,” wrote Voto Latino, one of the organizers, in a press release criticizing Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“Trump and Noem have normalized the erosion of constitutional rights, framing brutality as enforcement and accountability as weakness. Their rhetoric and policies have sent a clear message down the chain of command: push limits, ignore safeguards, and expect protection from consequences,” the statement continued.

“This is not about partisan politics—it is about defending human life and the rule of law. We stand with Renee Nicole Good’s family and with communities nationwide to demand accountability and to stop the unchecked enforcement born of Trump and Noem’s leadership before more lives are lost.”

Noem previously accused Good of committing “domestic terrorism” against ICE agents, saying she was attempting to run officers over, despite eyewitnesses dismissing that claim.