Ariana Grande once again fired back after one of her songs were used to soundtrack a TikTok video posted by the Team Trump account, which was created during the 2024 presidential campaign.
This time, her
song “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” from 2024’s Eternal Sunshine was layered over a clip posted on Aug. 20 of President Donald Trump walking up to a podium with text that read: “Me and my truth we sit in silence… Men can’t have babies and should never compete in women’s sports.”
Team Trump captioned the post: “This shouldn’t be controversial! #trump #arianagrande #maga.”
Taking to the comments, Grande blasted the use of her music on the clip and wrote, “Never use my music again. Also, your truth is false.”
This isn’t the first time Grande has hit back. In June, the White House used her 2024 song “Bye” in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement TikTok video depicting federal agents arresting and handcuffing people.
In the comment section of the clip, the Grammy winner demanded that the administration stop using her music, according to Reuters. Per the outlet, she wrote, “Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense.” A source told both Reuters and Variety that Grande’s team was looking into how to remove her music from the video.
In a statement to Rolling Stone responding to Grande, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said: “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.”
Grande had previously elicited a response from the White House. In September 2025, she re-shared a post to her Instagram that denounced the Trump administration for its ICE raids and transphobic rhetoric. Per Variety, the post was written by activist Matt Bernstein as a “check-in” for Trump supporters and posed the question: “It’s been 250 days. 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?”
In response, White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly at the time, “Save your tears, Ariana. Because President Trump’s actions ended Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investment.”
Trump has drawn the ire of several musiciansfor using their music, often without authorization. This was especially true during his 2024 campaign. From Canadian singer Céline Dion to the family of soul icon Isaac Hayes, they’ve done everything from issuing public statements to sending cease-and-desist letters to Trump through lawyers.
This article was updated on Aug. 20 at 8:18 p.m. ET to include a TikTok video posted by the Team Trump account.
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