Overview
- The White House posted an ICE arrest montage set to SZA’s SNL song “Big Boys,” captioned, “WE HEARD IT’S CUFFING SZN. Bad news for criminal illegal aliens. Great news for America.”
- SZA denounced the post on X, calling the tactic “PEAK DARK … inhumanity + shock and aw tactics … Evil n Boring” and labeling it “rage baiting.”
- Her manager Terrence “Punch” Henderson said officials are trying to provoke artists into responses that help spread propaganda and political agendas.
- White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded by thanking SZA for drawing attention to ICE officers’ work, sidestepping permission and licensing concerns.
- The dispute extends a recent pattern that also involved Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo; one Carpenter post was deleted before a new edited SNL clip appeared, and platform enforcement has varied.