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White House Fires Back At Ariana Grande After Pop Star Torches ICE Video

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Ariana Grande blasted the White House for using one of her songs in a social media clip about ICE arrests, and the Trump administration answered with a sharp reminder about the crimes it says immigration enforcement is targeting.

The fight erupted after the official White House TikTok account posted a video about immigration arrests that appeared to feature Grande’s music.

The clip’s caption read, “Bye-bye. President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history.”

Grande objected in the comments, demanding that her work not be tied to the administration’s deportation push.

“please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. f*ck ice,” she wrote.

The song was no longer audible on the clip by Thursday. Abigail Jackson, speaking for the White House, answered Grande with a law-and-order attack.

“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 in the statement.

The clash marked Grande’s latest public swipe at President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

Her anti-ICE posture was already visible at January’s Golden Globes, where she arrived with an “ICE OUT” button on her dress.

Her Instagram feed had already become a platform for jabs at Trump’s immigration crackdown.

“Could someone explain which crimes get you deported and which ones get you elected president? It’s so confusing,” she wrote at the time.

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In September, Grande amplified another anti-Trump message aimed directly at his voters.

“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?” the post began.

“Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?”

Kush Desai, the White House deputy press secretary, mocked Grande’s outrage at the time by working her song titles into a defense of Trump.

“Save your tears, Ariana,” Desai said. “Because President Trump’s actions ended Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investment.”

“He even signed an executive order just like magic that paved the way for the FTC to crack down on Ticketmaster for ripping off Ariana Grande’s concert-going fans. Get well soon, Ariana!” Desai continued.

Grande has not been subtle about her politics. In 2024, she was publicly in Harris’ corner.

After Harris lost, Grande posted that she was “holding the hand of every person who is feeling the immeasurable heaviness of this outcome today.” She also shared resources for the LGBTQ+ community after the election.

Her White House history also predates Trump: she performed at the Obama-era “Women of Soul” event in 2014.

Grande was not the only celebrity clashing with ICE this week. Spike Lee carried the anti-ICE message into Knicks fever.

“If the Knicks, when we win, whether it’s home or away, there’s going to be such — it’s going to be bananas, it’s going to be craziness, it’s going to be love and NYPD can’t control that, the Marines, National Guard. Just don’t bring in the motherf—ing ICE, no ICE. I’ve said this more than once, ICE is not welcome,” Lee said during an Andscape interview posted Sunday.

Lee predicted the city would erupt into a massive celebration if the Knicks finish the job.

“It’s going to be a love fest,” Lee predicted, “and people gonna be hugging and kissing each other. Total strangers. You know what? But we’re New Yorkers. That’s the bomb. I’m telling you, it’s going to happen. This is going to happen.”

In Newark, Ms. Rachel put her children’s-show platform behind detained immigrant families.

Rachel Griffin Accurso, the YouTuber behind Ms. Rachel, described children and families shaken by immigration enforcement.

One post focused on the daughter of a detained truck driver whom Accurso said had lived in the U.S. for two decades.

“Please let their kind, loving father be with his family again,” Accurso posted. “How is ripping this family apart and taking him from his children, one with severe special needs, OK?” Accurso asked. “I spoke with many traumatized kids who are scared to sleep at night. Why are we terrorizing children?”

Another post showed Accurso joining families and activists in song. The song included the lyrics, “Together we’ll sing down the walls everywhere… together we’ll sing until everyone’s free.”

The posts also tagged the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.

DHS rejected Accurso’s framing, accusing immigration-enforcement critics of ignoring children exploited by smugglers and sex traffickers under Biden.

On family separation, the agency said parents are given removal and placement options. “ICE does not separate families. Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates.”

Accurso later brought the campaign to Capitol Hill. She said letters from children with detained parents were delivered to both Republicans and Democrats.

“This is not a partisan issue,” Accurso told followers. “We will all look back on this time and remember if we stood with children being abused in detention centers or with corporations making millions and harming them with our tax dollars.”

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