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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Ariana Grande rebukes White House for using her music in ‘barbaric, inhumane’ ICE video

Ariana Grande at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards.
Ariana Grande at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV

Ariana Grande has rebuked Donald Trump’s White House over use of her music in a video documenting the detaining of immigrants.

Earlier this week, the White House posted a montage of ICE agents handcuffing and detaining people, with the caption “Bye-bye 👋 President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history”. It was soundtracked by Grande’s 2024 song Bye.

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