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Regardless of Sabrina Carpenter's protests, the White Home isn't backing down from utilizing her to advertise its ICE agenda.
Days after the Grammy winner slammed the Trump administration for that includes her track "Juno" in a video celebrating mass deportations and migrant arrests, the White Home social media account uploaded a second clip, this time altering her current look on Saturday Night Live.
Its newest video pulls footage from Carpenter's October advert for the present, doctoring a reference she made to her Brief N' Candy live performance custom of "arresting" stars within the crowd for being too enticing.
"I feel I would must arrest somebody for being too scorching," she joked within the unique promo.
Standing subsequent to her, SNL solid member Marcello Hernández then quipped, "Oh, effectively, I flip myself in."
After he held out his arms, ready to be cuffed, Carpenter cooed, "You're beneath arrest!"
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The brand new White Home video, nonetheless, alters the SNL promo, dubbing over Carpenter's voice in order that she as a substitute says, "I feel I would must arrest somebody for being too unlawful."
The Latino comic then "turns himself in," and Carpenter says, "You're beneath arrest."
After their change, the video cuts to a montage of immigration and customs enforcement officers chasing, detaining, and arresting folks.
Its caption reads, "PSA: When you're a felony unlawful, you WILL be arrested & deported."
Representatives for Carpenter and Hernández didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly's request for remark.
The earlier ICE video, which has since been deleted, additionally featured ICE officers chasing down, tackling, and arresting folks, however it was soundtracked to Carpenter's 2024 single "Juno."
"Have you ever ever tried this one?" her voice sang on repeat as people had been slammed to the bottom and handcuffed.
Carpenter was not a fan, commenting on the put up, "This video is evil and disgusting. Don’t ever contain me or my music to profit your inhumane agenda."
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A consultant for the White Home responded to her criticism in a press release to EW: "Right here's a Brief n' Candy message for Sabrina Carpenter: We gained't apologize for deporting harmful felony unlawful murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our nation."
Referencing lyrics from Carpenter's 2025 hit "Manchild," the assertion continued, "Anybody who would defend these sick monsters have to be silly, or is it gradual?"
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Carpenter shouldn’t be the primary pop star whose work has been used to advertise Donald Trump and ICE. Most lately, the White Home featured the music of Carpenter's good friend and collaborator Taylor Swift in a TikTok video celebrating the president, regardless of his historical past of bashing the singer on social media. Swift didn’t reply, and the video remains to be dwell, however different artists have been fast to voice their dissent over their songs getting used on the administration's social media pages.
Final month, when Olivia Rodrigo's "All American Bitch" was utilized in a pro-ICE video, she fired again, "Don't ever use my songs to advertise your racist, hateful propaganda."
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Earlier than that, in October, Kenny Loggins made headlines for reacting to the unauthorized use of his track "Hazard Zone" in an AI-generated video of Trump carrying a crown and flying in a jet labeled "King Trump," with the singer asking for it to be eliminated.
Quite a few artists — together with Pharrell, the Smiths' Johnny Marr, Adele, Weapons N’ Roses, Aerosmith, Neil Younger, Rihanna, Nickelback, Linkin Park, and the Rolling Stones — have additionally known as for the administration to cease enjoying their music at pro-Trump occasions.
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