Oh, Jim Acosta is at it again—America’s favorite former CNN carnival barker turned podcast punchline. This time, he’s decided that mocking the burial site of President Trump’s late ex-wife Ivana is highbrow comedy. Classy, right? Because nothing screams journalistic integrity quite like cracking jokes about a deceased mother and grandmother buried on private property. That’s just peak Acosta.
In his usual smug fashion, Acosta joined forces with Jennifer Rubin and April Ryan—two titans of progressive groupthink—on “The Contrarian” podcast, and they all had a good chuckle at the idea of Ivana Trump being buried at Bedminster. The punchline? “Immigrants always doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do!” Real knee-slapper. Apparently, the bar for left-wing humor is now six feet under.
Jim Acosta mocks Trump’s deceased ex-wife in an anti-ICE no kings day rant as Jen Rubin laughs.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News in response to this video: “Jim Acosta is a disgraceful human being.”pic.twitter.com/rABZkmjqKl
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 18, 2025
Let’s set aside, for just a second, the tastelessness of joking about a dead woman who literally helped raise a future president’s children and built a life in America as a successful immigrant entrepreneur. Let’s focus instead on the stunning hypocrisy dripping from Acosta’s every word. This is the same guy who spent years hyperventilating on national television about the erosion of norms, civility, and compassion under Trump. But now? Oh, now it’s hilarious to mock someone’s final resting place if they were once married to the guy Acosta doesn’t like.
And of course, what would an Acosta rant be without trotting out the tired “Trump is a hypocrite on immigration” trope? Because if you’ve ever married an immigrant, apparently that disqualifies you from enforcing immigration laws. That logic makes about as much sense as saying you can’t fight drug crime because your cousin once had a prescription Tylenol addiction.
Acosta even asked, with a straight face, why ICE isn’t raiding Trump’s golf courses. Because that’s how law enforcement works, right? You don’t follow leads or investigate crimes—you just raid places based on who you don’t like politically. It’s the banana republic version of due process. If a Republican suggested ICE raid, say, The New York Times’ offices “just to check,” they’d be labeled a fascist on the spot. But when Acosta floats it with a wink and a smirk, it’s “just a joke.”
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the ICE raids in Los Angeles are not a laughing matter. The city is seeing widespread unrest—575 arrests, police injured, cars torched—and yet Acosta and his podcast pals are too busy giggling about burial plots to notice. Maybe they’d care more if the chaos was happening outside their own echo chamber bubble in Georgetown or Brooklyn.
Acosta is done
White House condemns Jim Acosta as ‘disgraceful human being’ after he jokes about Trump’s dead ex-wifehttps://t.co/ZG3J59A2zr— Ana costa (@Anacost39960499) June 18, 2025
The truth is, this brand of snide elitism is exactly why so many Americans tuned out of legacy media and tuned into reality. Acosta, Rubin, and their ilk don’t offer news—they offer snarky cocktail party commentary dressed up as journalism. They treat illegal immigration as a political prop, never mind the toll it takes on law enforcement, communities, and yes, legal immigrants who followed the rules. But as long as there’s an opportunity to mock Trump, even the dead become fair game.
Karoline Leavitt said it best: “Jim Acosta is a disgraceful human being.” Not because he’s liberal. Not because he hates Trump. But because somewhere along the line, he traded in whatever shred of professionalism he had left for a podcast mic and applause from Twitter activists. And now? He’s out here cracking jokes about the dead while cities burn.
America deserves better than this media circus. And frankly, so does Ivana Trump.
