Ariana Grande backfired after the White House used her song “Bye” in a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) TikTok video.
A spokesperson for Grande, 32, confirmed Us Weekly on Thursday, June 11, that the singer responded directly to the White House’s post, writing in the comments section: “Please never use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, disgusting nonsense. Fck (f***) ice.”
The clip features real footage of ICE agents making arrests, along with a caption celebrating the passage of the Secure America Act. (Trump, 79, signed a $70 billion immigration enforcement package on Wednesday, June 10, which funds ICE and Customs and Border Protection through September 2029.)
“Goodbye criminal illegals! The Trump admin will continue to fight to keep America safe,” the White House wrote in the caption.
Us learned from a source close to Grande that her team is actively looking into how to remove the video from social media as soon as possible.
White House spokesman Abigail Jackson subsequently told Us“We say this one last time: What is actually barbaric, inhumane and despicable are the criminal illegal aliens who have injured and murdered innocent American citizens.”
Grande has clashed with the Trump administration many times before. Last September, Grande shared a post from podcasts Matt Bernstein shouted Trump supporters from the 2024 presidential election.
“It’s been 250 days,” the post began. “Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for pretty much everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for all of us — has your life gotten better?”
The White House has the internet talking after using one of Taylor Swift’s hit singles on TikTok despite President Donald Trump’s online feud with the pop star. On Monday, Nov. 3, the official White House TikTok account posted a video of President Trump, 79, and his administration that was largely based on Swift’s No. 1 hit “The (…)
The post continued: “Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down? Has your work-life balance improved? Can you still take vacations? Are you happier? Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you the way he promised, or are you still waiting?”
White House official Kush Desai fired back in a statement mocking both Grande and her music.
“Save your tears, Ariana, because President Trump’s actions ended Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investment,” Desai said in a statement to multiple outlets. “He even signed an executive order like magic that cleared the way for the FTC to crack down on Ticketmaster for ripping off Ariana Grande’s concert-loving fans. Get well soon, Ariana!”
In the past, Grande publicly took the case with Trump allies’ anti-transgender bathroom legislation, besides shows support for the Women’s March on Trump’s first inauguration weekend in January 2017.
Kesha has called President Donald Trump a “criminal predator” and condemned the White House’s use of her song “Blow” in a pro-war TikTok video. “It has come to my attention that the White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war (prior to the Iran conflict),” wrote Kesha, 39 (…)
The “Thank U, Next” singer – who split recently from boyfriend and Evil costsEthan Slater— has also publicly opposed ICE in the past, including questioning how potential immigration violations compared to Trump’s criminal conviction in 2024 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. (Trump has always denied wrongdoing.)
In June 2025, she shared a photo of a protest sign, asking: “Can someone explain which crimes get you deported and which get you elected president? It’s so confusing.”
