PoliticsAriana Grande Slams Trump Administration After 'We Can't Be Friends' Lands on TikTok: 'Never Use My Music Again'
Ariana Grande called out the Donald Trump administration for using her music in their propaganda posts.
Aug. 21 2026, Published 9:42 a.m. ET
Ariana Grande criticized the Donald Trump administration for using one of her songs.
This marks the second time the Grammy-winning singer has called them out for their unauthorized use of her music.
She has made her distaste for the current president and the administration known for a long while before directly addressing them on social media.
Ariana Grande Blasted Trump Administration Over Viral TikTok Video
Ariana Grande warned the Trump administration to 'never use' her music again.
On Thursday, August 20, Team Trump posted a video on TikTok where the president was seen walking to a podium.
The video was overlaid 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.”
“This shouldn’t be controversial! #trump #arianagrande #maga,” they captioned the video.
The post was set to the pop star’s 2024 hit song “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love).”
Ariana Grande previously blasted the Trump administration for using her music in a video featuring ICE agents in action.
Grande called them out for using her music directly in the comment section, writing, “Never use my music again. Also, your truth is false.”
She also called out the administration in June when the White House used her 2024 track “Bye” in a TikTok video.
In that video, which inevitably went viral, ICE agents could be seen arresting people and handcuffing them brutally.
“Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense,” she stated in the comments at the time.
“F— ICE,” she added.
While the “No Tears Left to Cry” singer's team had the song removed from the White House post, “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” still features in the Team Trump video.
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Ariana Grande is Among a Long List of Celebrities Calling Out the Trump Administration For Using Their Music
Taylor Swift's team stopped her music from being used by the Trump administration.
Apart from Grande, many other musicians have also slammed the Trump administration for using their music in their propaganda posts on social media.
One of them happens to be Taylor Swift, who has had a long-running feud with the sitting president to the point that the 80-year-old has openly mocked the songstress on multiple occasions.
She recently had her team remove one of her songs from a Trump-related post.
Bad Bunny had his music removed from a Trump-related post not too long ago.
Bad Bunny, too, followed the same route of getting his song removed from such posts.
Noah Kahan also blasted the current administration in late July when his song “American Cars” was used in an Instagram post by the White House.
“Would never approve of my music being used in support of you or this administration,” Kahan commented at the time.
