Greg Gutfeld used Memorial Day to deliver a blunt attack on anti-ICE protesters, saying they were creating chaos and blocking facilities while the country was supposed to be honoring its war dead. He said their behavior looked less like protest than damage, comparing them to a drunk who tears through a hotel room.
The criticism landed because Gutfeld tied the demonstrations to a holiday built around remembrance, arguing that the protesters were putting criminal illegal immigrants ahead of fallen soldiers. He said the scenes were being manufactured as political spectacle, not carried by any real civic purpose.
The remarks came during coverage on The Five, where the protests were framed as anti-ICE demonstrations. That context matters because Gutfeld was not just attacking disorder in the abstract; he was taking aim at a specific movement he said was using the day for message-making while facilities were being blocked.
What he left unsaid was just as important as what he put on the table. He did not identify which facilities were blocked or spell out which incidents triggered the comments, leaving the criticism aimed at the conduct and the symbolism rather than a single flashpoint. But the comparison he chose did the work for him: in his telling, the protests were not principled dissent, they were wreckage with a political label attached.
That is why the remark is likely to stick. Gutfeld turned a Memorial Day protest into a broader charge about motive, arguing that the point was spectacle and the cost was disorder. For anyone trying to understand where he stood, the answer was plain: he saw the protests as a public performance that diminished the holiday and obscured the issue they were supposed to be about.
