The White House has used another clip of Sabrina Carpenter to promote ICE, after the singer slammed President Donald Trump‘s administration for using her music.
Earlier this week, the pop star called out the White House for its “inhumane agenda” after they used her song ‘Juno’ in a video promoting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
Now, they’ve doubled down on their use of Carpenter’s image with a new video posted on Friday (December 5).
The new video manipulates a clip of Carpenter in a commercial from her recent Saturday Night Live appearance, where she’s standing with cast member Marcello Hernández. The audio has been altered, making it appear as if she’s calling Hernández “illegal” instead of “hot.”
In the original SNL commercial, Carpenter says, “I think I might need to arrest someone for being too hot.” Hernández then responds, “Oh well, I turn myself in” as he puts his hands out for handcuffs and she says, “You’re under arrest.”
It was a reference to a moment during Carpenter’s recent tour, where she would playfully “arrest” someone in the crowd during her performance of ‘Juno’.
The manipulated White House clip then cuts to allegedly undocumented immigrants being chased and arrested. A caption reads: “PSA: If you’re a criminal illegal, you WILL be arrested & deported.”
The original clip, shared last week, uses ‘Juno’, where Carpenter sings about “freaky positions”, asking: “Have you ever tried this one?”.
However, the video takes Carpenter’s question, layering footage of police officers handcuffing, chasing and detaining people instead. The video is part of Trump’s campaign promise to deliver “the largest deportation programme” in American history.
Upon discovering her track had been used, Carpenter hit out at the Trump administration for using her music in the video, calling the video “evil and disgusting”.
“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda”, she went on to add.
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
Following Carpenter’s objection earlier this week, White House press secretary Abigail Jackson issued a statement, saying: “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.
“Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”, via USA Today.
However, on Friday (December 5), the clip was quietly removed from X. At the time of publication, the White House has not issued any explanation for its removal, and it is still up on TikTok.
Carpenter joins a wave of musicians who have spoken out against Trump’s ICE raids. Olivia Rodrigo attended anti-ICE protests in June, adding that she was “deeply upset” over the “violent deportations of my neighbors under the current administration”.
She then hit out at ICE for using her song in a video encouraging self-deportation, writing: “Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.” ICE videos using the music of MGMT and The Cure were also removed due to official takedown requests.
Meanwhile, Addison Rae said she was “disappointed and disturbed” by Trump’s ICE raids, adding: “This country could not exist without immigrants”. Shakira would also speak out against Trump’s immigration policy, sharing that she lived in “constant fear” as an immigrant in the US.
Following the raid he witnessed, Bad Bunny would also declare that his world tour would not come to the United States as he was afraid of ICE agents raiding his shows.
He was later announced as the headliner for next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, where Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski and US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed that ICE agents would be present at the Super Bowl and that illegal immigrants would not be safe there.
In other news, Carpenter’s ‘House Tour’ was ranked at 34 in NME‘s 50 Best Songs of 2025 list. The entry read: “Pop’s reigning queen of innuendo sums up her M.O. on this effortlessly slinky funk bop, an extended come-on set to a sticky Janet Jackson-esque beat. When Sabrina Carpenter sings “I spent a little fortune on the waxed floors”, she isn’t complaining about the cost of polished mahogany.”
