Ariana Grande has had enough. The three-time Grammy winner publicly lashed out at President Donald Trump on Thursday after his campaign used her 2024 single We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love) in a TikTok video that mocked transgender participation in women’s sports.
Grande, who is in the final stretch of her Eternal Sunshine Tour, took to the comments section of the post to issue a blunt warning: “Never use my music again.” She didn’t stop there, adding, “Also, your truth is false.”
The video in question, posted by the Trump campaign, featured Grande’s song alongside text that read, “Me and my truth we sit in silence… men can’t have babies and should never compete in women’s sports,” with a caption that declared, “This shouldn’t be controversial!”
A Familiar Dispute
This isn’t the first time Grande has found herself at odds with the White House over her music. Per a report from Breitbart News in June, the Trump media team used another Grande track—Bye—in a video showing ICE agents arresting undocumented immigrants. Grande was quick to respond, telling the administration to cease and desist: “Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. Fck ice,” she wrote at the time.
That sound was stripped from the clip soon after, and a similar removal appears to be the pattern when artists object. Grande has made clear she does not want her music associated with the administration’s policy agenda.
Her political leanings are well documented. She previously supported Kamala Harris for president and performed for former President Barack Obama at the White House in 2014.
A Growing List of Artists
Grande joins a lengthening list of musicians who have publicly demanded Trump’s team stop using their songs. Last year, Sabrina Carpenter told the White House, “do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda” after a clip used part of her 2024 song Juno in a compilation of ICE operations.
During Trump’s successful 2024 re-election bid, ABBA, Céline Dion, and Beyoncé were among those who objected to their music being played at campaign rallies. The pattern is clear: artists increasingly see the use of their work by political figures as an unwanted endorsement, and they are not shy about saying so.
Grande’s latest rebuke underscores a recurring tension between pop culture and politics, where a song’s meaning can be reframed by its use in a political context—whether the artist likes it or not.
As of now, the Trump campaign has not publicly responded to Grande’s comments, and it remains to be seen whether the video will be pulled or the song replaced.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/08/21/ariana-grande-rages-at-trump-for-using-her-song-in-trans-trolling-tiktok-post/