Overview
- Official White House accounts shared a new video that alters audio from Carpenter’s SNL promo to replace the word “hot” with “illegal” before cutting to footage of ICE arrests.
- Outlets reported the clip uses dubbed or AI-like audio to change Carpenter’s words, with the post captioned, “PSA: If you’re a criminal illegal, you WILL be arrested & deported.”
- The administration had quietly removed an earlier ICE video set to Carpenter’s song “Juno” from X, while versions of related content remained available on TikTok at the time of reporting.
- Carpenter previously denounced the first video as “evil and disgusting” and told the White House not to use her work; she had not publicly responded to the new clip, and representatives for her and SNL’s Marcello Hernández did not respond to media requests.
- White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended the posts and deportations in statements to media, as coverage noted similar disputes involving other artists, including Olivia Rodrigo.