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\n\tAriana Grande has once again blasted the Trump administration for using her music in social media clips promoting the president. <\/p>\n
\n\tTeam Trump posted a video to TikTok on Thursday (Aug. 20) soundtracked by Grande\u2019s 2024 Eternal Sunshine<\/em> hit \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe clip finds Trump walking toward the podium at a speaking engagement and is captioned with lyrics from Grande\u2019s Billboard Hot 100-topping smash, \u201cMe and my truth we sit in silence,\u201d followed by a statement about women\u2019s sports. \u201cMen can\u2019t have babies and should never compete in women\u2019s sports,\u201d the post continues. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tAriana Grande\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\tTeam Trump added in the caption: \u201cThis shouldn\u2019t be controversial!\u00a0#trump\u00a0#arianagrande\u00a0#maga.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tNCT 127 Bringing ‘NCT 127 5th TOUR ‘NEO CITY : SEOUL – THE REDLINE’ in CINEMAS’ to Screens Around the World\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tReba McEntire Celebrates Five Decades of Music With Themed EPs: ‘You Got To Keep Recreating Yourself’\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tFoo Fighters Hopping Off Headlining Tour to Fill In For Pretty Reckless at AC\/DC’s St. Louis Gig: ‘This Is Literally a Dream Come True’\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\tGrande quickly got wind of Team Trump\u2019s post and slammed the administration for using her work in the comment section. \u201cNever use my music again. Also, your truth is false,\u201d she responded. <\/p>\n \n\tArianators also flocked to the comment section to alert the singer. \u201cDoes Ariana know he\u2019s using her song AGAIN,\u201d one fan wrote. <\/p>\n \n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Grande has spoken out against the Trump administration for using the pop star\u2019s music to promote its content. She previously condemned Trump\u2019s deployment of ICE after the agency posted a clip soundtracked by 2024\u2019s \u201cBye\u201d in June. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cPlease do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. F\u2014 ICE,\u201d she commented. <\/p>\n \n\tPlenty of Ari\u2019s pop star peers have criticized Trump\u2019s deployment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including\u00a0Olivia Rodrigo,\u00a0Billie Eilish\u00a0and\u00a0Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 33-year-old has been a staunch supporter of the anti-ICE movement, as she sported an \u201cICE Out\u201d pin at the 2026 Golden Globes. <\/p>\n \n\tOn the music side, Grande returned with her petal<\/em> album in July, which topped the Billboard 200 \u2014 her seventh LP at the summit \u2014 with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States. Grande is currently in the midst of a 10-show run at London\u2019s O2 Arena on the Eternal Sunshine Tour.<\/p>\n \n\tFind the Team Trump TikTok video below. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/ariana-grande-slams-donald-trump-administration-tiktok-1236321486\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2255448169-e1781221098211.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Ariana Grande has once again blasted the Trump administration for using her music in social media clips promoting the president. Team Trump posted a video to TikTok on Thursday (Aug. 20) soundtracked by Grande\u2019s 2024 Eternal Sunshine hit \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).\u201d The clip finds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2103708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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