Overview
- Team Trump posted a TikTok that used Grande’s 2024 single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” with on-screen text linking the lyric to an anti-trans message about women’s sports.
- Grande responded in the video’s comments, writing “Never use my music again. Also, your truth is false,” and fans alerted her to the post.
- Her record label has been reported to be working to have the song removed or muted from the clip, and several outlets say the audio was stripped while at least one source disputed whether the White House or presidential accounts posted the video.
- This follows a June incident when the White House used Grande’s 2024 song “Bye” in a TikTok about ICE arrests and her team secured removal, placing this episode in a broader pattern of artists objecting to political uses of their work.
- The dispute highlights how platform licensing and takedown tools let labels or rights-holders mute audio, a dynamic that could prompt more artists to seek swift removals and push platforms to clarify how political posts use licensed music.