Pop star Sabrina Carpenter tore into the White House on Tuesday after the administration used her song “Juno” as the soundtrack for a video showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers chasing and handcuffing people.

The clip, posted on the White House’s official X account, rolls through a montage of ICE raids while Carpenter’s lyric — “Wanna try out some freaky positions? Have you ever tried this one?” — plays in the background. The collision between bubble-pop seduction and law-and-order imagery landed like a punch.

“This video is evil and disgusting,” Carpenter wrote in response. “Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. When NBC News asked Carpenter’s team for additional reaction, they pointed back to her post.

The blowup marks yet another round in a running fight between artists and the Trump administration over the use of songs and cultural IP in immigration-themed videos. In September, the Department of Homeland Security leaned on the “Pokémon” theme song “Gotta Catch ’Em All” — complete with cartoon imagery — for a similar roundup video. Nintendo disavowed the clip and said no permission was granted.
The video remained online anyway.

That same week, DHS yanked a separate post featuring comedian Theo Von after he blasted the agency for dropping his voice into a deportation-themed reel. “Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this,” Von wrote, adding that if DHS knew his address, they could “send a check.” He also asked the agency to stop using his voice in its “banger deportation videos.”

In October, MGMT said it had filed a takedown request after discovering its track “Little Dark Age” in what the band called a government “propaganda video.”

Then in November, DHS used Olivia Rodrigo’s “all-american [expletive]” in yet another clip showing agents rounding up people. Rodrigo demanded the agency stop using her music, calling the video “racist” and “hateful.” DHS later removed the song and Rodrigo’s comment from the Instagram post, though the video itself stayed up.

Carpenter’s rebuke adds another high-profile voice to a growing wave of musicians pushing back against the administration’s attempts to harness their work for immigration enforcement messaging. Whether the videos come down or the songs keep disappearing, the pattern is clear: the government keeps posting them — and the artists keep fighting back.