- - White House Doubles Down on Sabrina Carpenter with New ICE Promo Featuring the Singer and “SNL”’s Marcello Hernández

Bailey RichardsDecember 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM

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Sabrina Carpenter (left) and Marcello Hernández (right), a man being arrested by ICE agents. -

The White House doubled down after Sabrina Carpenter called out the use of her music in a video promoting ICE arrests

After deleting the post Carpenter slammed as "evil and disgusting," the White House uploaded a new video featuring a doctored clip of Carpenter and SNL's Marcello Hernández

The latest clip comes after Carpenter told the Trump administration not to "involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda"

After Sabrina Carpenter slammed the Trump Administration for using one of her songs to promote ICE arrests, official White House accounts quietly removed it. They later doubled down, however, this time using her likeness.

The White House went up with a new video featuring a doctored clip of the pop star, 26, promoting her October Saturday Night Live episode alongside cast member Marcello Hernández after deleting the original video from its X account on Friday, Dec. 5, following Carpenter’s viral response.

The video posted by the White House on TikTok and X uses footage of the “Espresso” singer and Hernández, 28, promoting her SNL gig, with a play on her Short n’ Sweet tour tradition of “arresting” stars in the crowd. The video changes her words from “hot” to “illegal.”

“I think I might need to arrest someone for being too illegal [hot],” Carpenter says in the clipped video, as Hernández replies, “Well, I turn myself in.”

PSA: If you’re a criminal illegal, you WILL be arrested & deported. ✨ pic.twitter.com/7wluqPiidR

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 5, 2025

“You’re under arrest—,” the singer then says, but the video cuts her off and transitions to a montage of various clips of immigration and customs enforcement officers detaining people.

"PSA: If you’re a criminal illegal, you WILL be arrested & deported. ✨,” the White House said in the caption for the video, which was this time soundtracked by a remix of Rihanna’s “S&M” and “I Get the Bag” by Gucci Mane featuring Migos.

Representatives for Carpenter and Hernández did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on Sunday, Dec. 6.

The original, since-deleted video that caught Carpenter’s attention was shared on Monday, Dec. 1. The compilation of clips showed immigration officers detaining people as a lyric to the star’s song "Juno" — "Have you ever tried this one?" — repeated.

The White House captioned the video, "Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye 👋😍."

The “Manchild” singer replied to the since-deleted post in a response that has since garnered 1.8 million likes and over 160 million views on X.

"This video is evil and disgusting,” wrote Carpenter. “Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

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Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, reacted to Carpenter’s call-out in a statement shared with PEOPLE on Dec. 2.

“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,” said Jackson. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”

Carpenter is one of many artists to speak out against the Trump Administration’s use of their songs in their promotional videos.

Others who have publicly shared their frustration include Olivia Rodrigo, Jack White, Céline Dion, Bruce Springsteen, Linkin Park, R.E.M. and Neil Young.

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