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Kristen Stewart blasted ICE activity in Los Angeles and spiraled into talk of skipping burgers, triggering a wave of online mockery.

The actress unloaded during an interview with Architectural Digest, where she struggled to articulate her frustration over immigration enforcement in her hometown.

“I can’t stand the idea that – the dismantling of the culture that did have a hand in, like, making me who I am, which is so meaningless in the face of people’s lives being, like, completely unearthed, uprooted, destroyed,” Stewart said.

She framed the situation as a personal rupture tied to identity. “This is, like, not who we are,” she continued. “So, like, where I’m from, I don’t identify with that right now.”

Stewart then pivoted into a string of questions about what Hollywood should do in response.

“So, like, I – I definitely am dying every day thinking, ‘So do we make movies about this? Do we throw all of our money at it? Do we stop buying burgers in the daytime? What do we do about this?’ Like, I can’t fathom that it’s happening until it doesn’t happen. It’s like Los Angeles doesn’t exist without all of us.”

Architectural Digest shared the clip on Instagram, and critics seized on the muddled phrasing.

“Elite-level word salad right there,” one commenter wrote.

“So her big plan is… skip In-N-Out at lunch? Bold strategy. Meanwhile the rest of us are just trying to afford rent in the city immigrants actually keep running,” another added.

“Looks like she solved America’s problems! Just don’t buy burgers and everything will be fine,” another user posted.

The backlash landed as Stewart signaled she may not remain in the United States much longer.

The “Twilight” star told The Times she is building her directing career around Europe because she “can’t work freely” in America.

Her first feature as a director, “The Chronology of Water,” filmed in Latvia because she claimed it would have been impossible to shoot in the U.S.

“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” Stewart said. “But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.”

Stewart splits time between Los Angeles and New York but admitted her future may lie overseas.

“I can’t work freely there,” she said. “But I don’t want to give up completely. I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people.”

She first announced the project in 2018 at Cannes and described Latvia as offering creative distance.

“It’s a fledgling film culture there. Look, I’m all about the way we make movies here [in the U.S.], but I needed a sort of radical detachment. I am not a director yet. I need to make a student film. I can’t do that here,” she explained.

Her broader frustration with the entertainment industry has spilled into other interviews.

During a sit-down with The New York Times’ “The Interview,” Stewart labeled Hollywood a “capitalist hell” and pushed for what she described as a system break.

“We’re in a pivotal nexus, because I think we’re ready for a full system break. Do you know what I mean? I mean that across the board and also specific to the world that I live in, which is very exclusively the entertainment industry,” she said.

She questioned industry rules and union structures. “We need to start sort of stealing our movies. I’m so appreciative of every union,” she noted.

“Trust me, we would not survive without them. But some of the terms and some of the rules and some of the structures we’ve set up have created unbelievable barriers for artists to express themselves.”

Stewart floated ideological language to describe what she wants to see.

“It’s just so difficult to make movies, it just doesn’t need to be. I’m just trying to think of some sort of weird, like Marxist, Communist-like, situation that other people can definitely think, of course this psycho is saying that, but I think it’s possible, especially in these kind of narrow and exclusive environments,” she rambled.

“I’m not talking about the world at large, but for us, the system has barred people and made it too difficult to be honest.”

Her tension with President Donald Trump stretches back more than a decade. While Stewart dated “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson, she became embroiled in a cheating scandal involving “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders.

Trump weighed in on social media at the time. “Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again — just watch. He can do much better!” Trump wrote.

He followed days later with another message. “Everyone knows I am right that Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart. In a couple of years, he will thank me. Be smart, Robert.”

The president also targeted the film industry last year. In September, Trump proposed a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States.

“Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing ‘candy from a baby.’ California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit!” Trump wrote.

“Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never-ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.”

Comedian Bill Maher has argued that celebrity activism often backfires for Democrats.

“Celebrities, I know it’s very important to you that you feel that you’re making a difference, and you are, you’re making independents vote Republican,” Maher wrote on X.

He warned that high-profile endorsements can alienate swing voters. “Democrats, it’s great you have all the big celebs, but people see them as an arm of the Democratic Party, which they already suspect for lacking common sense.”

“I know the celebrities mean well, and we thank them for having their heart in the right place, but just do you. Do what you do so well,” he told viewers.

Maher closed with a stark  message for Hollywood activists. “Use your extraordinary talents for the noble cause of bringing relief from the problems that ribbons and pins can’t fix,” he advised.

“I know it’s very important to you that you feel that you’re making a difference, so let me assure you, you are. You’re making independents vote Republican.”

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