Kesha is slamming President Trump for unauthorized use of her song “Blow” in a TikTok posted to the White House‘s account last month.
In a Monday (March 2) Instagram Story and X post, Kesha accuses the administration of using her song to “incite violence and threaten war.” She goes on to say that she does not approve of her music “being used to promote violence of any kind” and that this is “the opposite of what I stand for.”
Kesha’s post concludes by calling Trump a “criminal predator” and saying that this should not distract us from Trump being named in the Epstein Files more than a million times. (According to The New York Times, there were 38,000 mentions of Trump’s name in the public documents released in January related to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.)
Kesha is just the latest in a list of artists who have called out the White House and the Trump administration for unauthorized use of their music in promotional videos, social media posts and rallies.
In December, the White House quietly deleted an ICE video shared to X featuring Sabrina Carpenter’s song “Juno” after the pop star responded calling the video “evil and disgusting.” Carpenter then said to the administration to not involve her or her music “to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
This was not the end of the Carpenter-White House saga: Just days later, the White House doubled down with an edited video clipped from the Grammy winner’s Saturday Night Live promo. In the post, Carpenter appears to be saying “I think I might need to arrest someone for being too illegal,” however, the word “illegal” is clearly falsified. In the original promo, Carpenter says to SNL’s Marcello Hernandez that she’s arresting him for being too hot. Much like the ICE footage, the edited video has since been taken down as well.
Other artists who have fought back against the Trump administration using their music include Olivia Rodrigo, Celine Dion and Foo Fighters. SZA also called out the administration for their pattern of using popular music as a distraction, saying, “White House rage baiting artists for free promo is PEAK DARK,” in a December post to X.
At the time of publication, the White House has not removed the “Blow” TikTok — which has 1.8 million likes and nearly 17 thousand comments — nor responded to Kesha’s Instagram Story.
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