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Ariana Grande Blasts White House for Using “Bye” in ICE Deportation TikTok

Ariana Grande has criticized the White House for using her 2024 song “Bye” in a TikTok that showed ICE agents arresting individuals. Grande publicly requested the administration to stop using her music, calling their actions “barbaric, inhu

Variety Music·Jun 11, 2026·via Variety Music

Ariana Grande Blasts White House for Using “Bye” in ICE Deportation TikTok

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Jun 11, 2026 3:51pm PT

Ariana Grande Slams Trump’s White House for Using Her Song to Promote ICE Deportations: ‘Barbaric, Inhumane, Heinous Nonsense’

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Ariana Grande has blasted the White House for using a version of her 2024 song “Bye” in a TikTok post that depicted ICE agents arresting and handcuffing people.

Grande commented on the TikTok post from earlier this week, telling the administration to cease using her songs. “Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense,” she wrote in her comment, according to Reuters .