Pop star Ariana Grande has publicly criticised the Trump administration after the "Team Trump" TikTok account used her 2024 single "We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)" as the soundtrack for a video, marking the second such clash between the singer and the White House in as many months. The clip featured President Trump walking to a podium with on-screen text about transgender women in sport, captioned "This shouldn't be controversial!" alongside hashtags including her name. Grande responded in the comments, telling the account to "never use my music again" and adding "your truth is false."

This follows a similar incident in June, when the White House used her song "Bye" in a TikTok post depicting ICE agents making arrests; Grande condemned the pairing at the time and her team succeeded in having the track removed, though the newer post still features her music as of writing. She joins a growing list of artists pushing back against the administration's use of their songs, including Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, whose tracks were pulled from similar posts, and Noah Kahan, who publicly objected after his song "American Cars" was used in July. A White House representative had not responded to a request for comment.