Within hours of the singer calling out the use of her song “Bye,” it had been removed from the offending TikTok video.

White House removes Ariana Grande song from TikTok video after she blasted ICE for its ‘barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense’

Within hours of the singer calling out the use of her song "Bye," it had been removed from the offending TikTok video.

By Kathleen Perricone

June 11, 2026 9:23 p.m. ET

Ariana Grande performing at the 2024 Met Gala. Credit:

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- The White House removed Ariana Grande's song "Bye" from a TikTok video praising ICE after the singer condemned its use.

- "Please do not ever use my music ⁠in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense," Grande commented on the video.

- Within hours, "Bye" was removed from the offending video.

Ariana Grande has strong-armed the White House into saying "bye" to her music.

The singer blasted the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday after the White House's official TikTok account used her 2024 song "Bye" in a video compilation of immigrants being detained by ICE agents. "Bye-bye," reads the caption. "President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history."

"Please do not ever use my music ⁠in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. f--- ice," Grande ​commented, although her remark appears to have since been hidden.

Her team vowed to have the song removed from the White House's TikTok page, and within hours Grande's "Bye" was muted. "This sound isn't available," now reads the video description.

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Earlier in the day, after Grande's anti-ICE comment went viral, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson clapped back — while quoting another chart-topping single by the singer, 2014's "One Last Time."

"We'll say this ​one last time: What's actually barbaric, inhumane, and heinous are the criminal illegal ‌aliens ⁠who have injured and murdered innocent American citizens," Jackson said.

This wasn't the first time Grande made her feelings known about the Trump Administration's immigration policies.

Ariana Grande wore an 'ICE OUT' pin at the 2026 Golden Globes.

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At the Golden Globes in January, the *Wicked: For Good* star (and nominee for Best Supporting Actress) pinned an "ICE OUT" button to her Vivienne Westwood gown.

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Last September, Grande shared an Instagram post aimed as a "check in with Trump voters" nine months into his second term as president.

“Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all — has your life gotten better?” begins the post. "Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?"

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