‘F**okay ICE’: Ariana Grande Goes Off On White House After They Pull Annoyingly Familiar Move
It’s pretty clear Ariana Grande would like to “Thank U, Next” the Trump administration.
On Thursday, the pop star left a savage message on the White House’s TikTok page after it posted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement propaganda video using her 2024 song, “Bye,” Reuters reports.
The White House’s TikTok — which as of Friday is completely silent on the platform — featured the chorus in which Grande croons “Bye-bye, boy, bye” while footage rolls of ICE arrests.
“please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. fuck ICE,” Grande wrote in a now-deleted comment for the video, per a screenshot published by TMZ.
It is unclear why the Grammy winner’s comment was deleted, who deleted it, or why the “Into You” singer’s song no longer plays in the video on the platform.
HuffPost has reached out to Grande for comment. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, however, did respond to the “Wicked” star’s earlier words, telling HuffPost in a statement:
“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,” Jackson said.
Grande has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and his aggressive immigration crackdown. In September, she posted a heated question to Trump supporters on her Instagram Story.
“it’s been 250 days,” she said in part. “now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all ― has your life gotten better?”
Despite Grande’s comment being deleted, she still seems fired up. On Friday, she launched The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation, which supports several vulnerable communities. One of the grantees includes the Defending Our Neighbors Fund, which raises money for organizations that provide legal representation and bond assistance to immigrants facing detention and deportation.
