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Since Donald Trump took office back in January, his administration’s official social-media channels have opted for a cutesy, meme-forward tone while posting about deportation specifically. This means that someone being paid with your tax dollars is pumping out, for lack of a better term, fan-cams about people being detained by ICE, often set to pop hits. The whole thing is baldly abhorrent and Sabrina Carpenter agrees.
On Monday, the White House X account posted a compilation video of ICE detainments set to Carpenter’s “Juno.” “Have you ever tried this one?” the post read, referring to a lyric that, in Carpenter’s song, describes sexual positions. The White House, I guess, is talking about different ways to violently detain people.
this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) December 2, 2025
Carpenter responded to the post on Tuesday, writing on X, “this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
The White House actually took the time to respond to Carpenter, making sure to include a couple of cheeky references to the singer’s work. “Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: We won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to Zeteo. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”
According to CBS News, 48 percent of the individuals in ICE detention as of November 16 lacked any criminal charges or convictions in the U.S. In total, the number of individuals without criminal records who ICE has arrested and held in federal detention centers has risen by more than 2,000 percent since Trump took office, the news outlet reported, citing government data.
While that happens, the Trump administration has been hard at work using left-leaning women’s songs to promote their deportation agenda — a strategy that officials told Zeteo is designed to stoke outrage from liberal fans. In November, the Department of Homeland Security posted a montage of men, women, and children being deported set to Olivia Rodrigo’s “all-american bitch.” Rodrigo commented on the post, reportedly writing, “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.” The comment has now seemingly been delated, and the video has no audio.
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