Ariana Grande slams ICE for using her song to promote deportations: ‘Barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense’
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Ariana Grande has blasted the White House for using her music in a social media post depicting ICE agents arresting and handcuffing people.
A version of her 2024 song “Bye” was used in a TikTok post shared by the administration earlier this week.
Grande commented directly on it, telling the White House to stop using her music. “Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. F**k ice,” she wrote, according to Reuters.
A spokesperson for Grande confirmed to Variety that she had made the comment, though “for some reason it’s not publicly visible” on the post. Her team also moved to have the audio removed from the video, and the sound was stripped from the clip shortly afterwards.
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson hit back: “We’ll say this one last time: what’s actually barbaric, inhumane, and heinous are the criminal illegal aliens who have injured and murdered innocent American citizens.”
It is not the first time Grande has criticised the Trump administration. In September 2025, she reshared an Instagram post that condemned the administration over ICE raids and transphobic rhetoric, among other concerns. The post was originally written by
