Selena Gomez is just calling it like she sees it.
On Monday, Sam Parker, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Utah in 2018, decided to casually threaten the “Only Murders in the Building” star on X, formerly Twitter.
“Deport Selena Gomez,” the tweet read.
But Gomez wasn’t having it. In an Instagram Story, the Mexican-American actor and singer responded to Parker with a simple message.
“Oh, Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker. Thanks for the laugh and the threat,” Gomez wrote, according to a screenshot taken by People.
A quick gander at Parker’s X account shows that the failed politician — who the Anti-Defamation League classifies as a “conspiracy theorist and antisemite” — was irritated by the “Emilia Pérez” actor for a video she posted earlier that day that went viral.
On Monday, Gomez posted a now-deleted Instagram Story in which she openly expressed her despair over mass deportations currently being executed by Trump’s administration.
“I just want to say, I’m so sorry,” Gomez says in the video while crying. “All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I wish I could do something but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”
After Gomez received apparent backlash for her emotional video, she deleted it and followed it up with another Instagram Story that said, “Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people.”
This Instagram Story also was swiftly deleted.
Although Gomez has remained quiet about Parker after posting her Story, she did feed a troll — and he’s having a feeding frenzy on social media. On Parker’s X and Instagram accounts are oodles of posts of him gloating about all of the attention he’s receiving for publishing the racist three-word tweet that seems to be getting media interest only because Gomez responded.
Perhaps one Instagram user summed up Parker’s behavior best in the comments of a post he published that boasts a montage of every media outlet that’s covered this story.
“Do you not have anything better to do? I’m embarrassed for you,” the commenter said simply.
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