The White House brushed aside pop star Sabrina Carpenter’s outrage this week after she demanded the administration stop using her hit song “Juno” in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a deportation video that highlighted arrests of violent criminal offenders.
On Monday, the White House posted a montage of ICE raids and deportations set to a snippet of “Juno,” quoting the song’s lyric, “Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye.” The video showed ICE agents placing handcuffs on detainees and loading them into vehicles as part of renewed crackdowns targeting violent criminal illegal aliens.
Carpenter erupted on X, fuming: “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
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
The 25-year-old singer, known for her sexually explicit choreography, accused the administration of misusing her work and demanded they stop.
White House to Carpenter: “Short n’ Sweet — We Won’t Apologize”
The Trump White House appeared completely unfazed.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson issued a blistering statement to TMZ on December 2, dismissing Carpenter’s outrage.
“Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter,” Jackson said, referencing the singer’s current tour. “We won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country. Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid — or is it slow?”
Jackson’s response quickly shut down attempts by the singer’s fans to frame the ICE video as a broad attack on immigrants, reiterating that the highlighted arrests involved violent offenders and “the worst of the worst.”
A Pop Song Repurposed
The video showcased Carpenter’s lyric, “Have you ever tried this one?”—a line she links to provocative sexual performances at her concerts—and placed it over footage of ICE officers slapping cuffs on fugitives and walking deportees onto planes.
As of publication, Carpenter has not responded publicly since Jackson’s retort.
A New Era of White House Messaging
The moment underscores a noticeable shift in the Trump administration’s communications strategy: unapologetically leaning into cultural clashes, refusing to defer to celebrity outrage, and using pop culture references to make political points.
While celebrities have frequently criticized American immigration enforcement, the Trump White House appears willing to confront them directly — and, in this case, to turn their own lyrics into messaging tools.
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The Democrats learned some of this kind of disruptive garbage from the Soviets. I think they hired some of the out-of-work propagandists when the USSR broke up.