Ariana Grande criticized Team Trump on August 20, 2026, after the campaign account used her song “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” in a TikTok featuring President Donald Trump. Grande demanded that the account stop using her music and rejected the political message attached to the clip. The video showed Trump approaching a podium while on screen text declared that men cannot have babies and should not compete in women’s sports. Team Trump captioned the post, “This shouldn’t be controversial!” and added hashtags for Trump, Grande, and MAGA. Grande Has Been Here Before Grande responded directly in the comments: “Never use my music again. Also, your truth is false.” The song appears on Eternal Sunshine , Grande’s 2024 album, making the TikTok the latest political use of her catalog that she has publicly rejected. In June, the White House used Grande’s “Bye” in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement video showing agents arresting and handcuffing people, according to Reuters. Grande called that content “barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense,” while a source told Reuters and Variety that her team was exploring how to remove the track. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended the earlier post by saying the administration considered criminal undocumented immigrants responsible for harming and killing Americans. Grande also criticized Trump’s ICE raids and anti transgender rhetoric in a September 2025 Instagram repost, prompting then Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai to respond that Trump’s policies had addressed inflation and attracted trillions in investment.