The White House removed Ariana Grande’s song “Bye” from a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) TikTok video following her public complaints.
As of Friday, June 12, the video no longer has any playable audio, with an onscreen message explaining that “this sound is not available.”
Us Weekly previously learned from a source close to Grande that her team was actively looking into how to remove the video from social media as soon as possible.
A spokesperson for Grande, 32, confirmed to Us on Thursday, June 11, that the singer responded directly to the White House’s post, writing in the comments section, “Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. Fck [f***] ice.”
The clip features real footage of ICE agents making arrests, along with a caption celebrating the passage of the Secure America Act. (Trump, 79, signed a $70 billion immigration enforcement package on Wednesday, June 10, which funds ICE and Customs and Border Protection through September 2029.)
“Bye-bye 👋 President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history ,” the White House wrote in the caption.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson subsequently told Us, “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 has clashed with the Trump administration many times before. Last September, Grande shared a post from podcaster Matt Bernstein that called out Trump supporters from the 2024 presidential election.
“It’s been 250 days,” the post began. “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 continued, “Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down? Has your work/life balance improved? Can you take a vacation yet? Are you happier? Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?”
White House official Kush Desai fired back in a statement that mocked both Grande and her music.
“Save your tears, Ariana, because President Trump’s actions ended Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investments,” Desai said in a statement to multiple outlets. “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!”
In the past, Grande publicly took issue with Trump allies’ anti-transgender bathroom legislation, in addition to showing support for the Women’s March on Trump’s first inauguration weekend in January 2017.
The “Thank U, Next” singer — who recently split from boyfriend and Wicked costar Ethan Slater— has also publicly opposed ICE in the past, including questioning how potential immigration violations compared to Trump’s 2024 criminal conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. (Trump has always denied wrongdoing.)
In June 2025, she shared a photo of a protest sign asking, “Could someone explain which crimes get you deported and which ones get you elected president? It’s so confusing.”
