Key Takeaways:

• SZA criticized the Donald Trump administration for utilizing her “Big Boys” in a pro-ICE video with out her consent.
• The White House’s response sparked additional backlash from social media.
• Other artists like Doechii and Kehlani have additionally spoken out towards ICE and authorities overreach in latest months.

A consultant for the White House has responded after SZA referred to as them out over their “evil” and “boring” pro-ICE advert.

On Tuesday (Dec. 10), the singer jumped on X after the White House used “Big Boys,” which initially aired as a part of an “SNL” skit she did in December 2022. “White House rage-baiting artists for free promo is PEAK DARK,” she wrote, earlier than criticizing the Donald Trump administration’s “inhumanity” and use of “shock and [awe] tactics.”

Her quote-tweet got here in response to TDE’s Terrence “Punch” Henderson, who mentioned, “Trying to provoke artists to respond in order to help spread propaganda and political agendas is nasty business. Knock it off.”

In an announcement to People, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded by, of all issues, thanking the “30 For 30” singer. She mentioned, “Thank you, SZA, for drawing even more attention to the tremendous work America’s ICE officers are doing by arresting dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities.”

For added context, the White House shared a 31-second clip of ICE brokers arresting immigrants on Monday (Dec. 8). “WE HEARD IT’S CUFFING SZN,” the caption learn, in reference to SZA’s refrain on “Big Boys.”

SZA isn’t the primary — or the final — artist to name out the Trump administration relating to ICE. At the 2025 BET Awards in June, Doechii spoke concerning the Los Angeles protests taking place on the time. “I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us,” she mentioned throughout her Best Female hip hop Artist acceptance speech.

Then, in November, Kehlani condemned ICE for “kidnapping” people “out of schools, and jobs, and homes, and churches.” They advised Big Boy that brokers had been reportedly “checking for Spanish-adjacent last names.”