Sabrina Carpenter calls out the White House for using her song in ICE raid video

Earlier this week, Sabrina Carpenter, 26, publicly criticized the White House on X for using her song “Juno” without her permission to accompany a video showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining individuals.

The singer and songwriter called the video “evil and disgusting,” keeping her response short and to the point. She also wrote to the White House social media team to not ever involve her or her music to benefit Trump Administration “inhumane agenda.”  

In a statement provided to USA TODAY, White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson responded, citing lyrics from another Carpenter track, “Manchild” with the following message to the singer: “We won't apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists and pedophiles from our country,” Jackson said. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”

The video using Carpenter's song is still up on X and TikTok as of late Tuesday afternoon with more than 623,000 likes, 231 reposts and more than 12,000 comments as well. But the pop singer is not the only artist who has called them out on this issue of using their songs without consent. 

Just last month, Olivia Rodrigo also slammed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the White House for using her 2023 song “all-american bitch” to promote self-deportations among undocumented immigrants on their social media platforms.

 “Don't ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,” she wrote, according to Billboard and Rolling Stone. Rodrigo’s song has since been removed from the DHS video.