The White Home can’t appear to take a touch: Artists don’t need their music everywhere in the Trump administration’s egregiously merciless deportation movies.
Sabrina Carpenter is the most recent musician to object to using her track “Juno” over a montage clip of Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers handcuffing and tackling immigrants. The video was posted to X by the official White Home account on Monday.
“this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” the pop star wrote by way of X Tuesday.
Naturally, the White Home used this chance to slam Carpenter in a response utilizing her album titles and track lyrics.
“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 Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson mentioned in an announcement supplied to Zeteo. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”
The folks behind the Division of Homeland Safety’s social media have been making mild of the damaging, aggressive, and inhumane deportation practices being carried out by masked brokers.
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From ASMR movies of shackled immigrants to “South Park” memes, they’ve used every part beneath the solar to search out sick humor in arresting pregnant ladies and senior residents—something to show consideration away from the lawless mistreatment of people.
However Hollywood isn’t laughing.
As a matter of reality, President Donald Trump has seemingly misplaced a few of his extra loyal manosphere bros due to the callous modifying efforts.
In September, DHS used comic Theo Von to joke about deportation.
“Heard you got deported dude,” Von mentioned in a video taken out of context. “Bye.”
However Von didn’t discover it humorous, and lawyered up instantly to get it taken down. By the point DHS eliminated the bootlegged content material, although, hundreds of thousands of individuals had already seen it.
Even podcaster Joe Rogan, as soon as an outspoken supporter of Trump, denounced the clip.
“Oh my god, what the fuck are they doing?” he mentioned throughout a current podcast episode with Von.
Artists like Olivia Rodrigo have taken a extra upfront strategy to DHS utilizing their songs as a soundtrack for hatred.
“Don’t ever use my songs to advertise your racist, hateful propaganda,” she wrote in response to the division utilizing her music in November.
Jay-Z and Pokémon stepped into the ring too, demanding DHS take down morally questionable movies utilizing their content material.
It’s not simply the artists being ripped off who’re talking out. Massively fashionable celebrities have been raging over the inhumane mass deportations for months.
Actor Pedro Pascal used his platform to face by Angelenos when ICE and the Nationwide Guard infiltrated Los Angeles, whereas rapper Doechii took on ICE whereas accepting an award in June.
“People are being swept up and torn from their families, and I feel it’s my responsibility as an artist to use this moment to speak up for all oppressed people,” she mentioned from the rostrum on the BET Awards.
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Rocker Bruce Springsteen took to the stage in June and slammed the apply as effectively.
“We are seeing things right now on our American borders that are so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging,” he mentioned to the group. “And we have heard people in high positions in the American government blaspheme in the name of God and country that it is a moral thing to assault the children amongst us. May God save our souls.”
Trump has lengthy had beef with Springsteen, calling the award-winning musician “overrated” and “not talented.”
However regardless of how a lot Trump and his DHS minions bully and demean immigrants, the calls coming from Hollywood and folks throughout the nation denouncing their horrible ways are solely rising louder.
