Sabrina Carpenter pushed back against the Trump administration after the official White House account on X (Twitter) posted an ICE deportation video featuring her hit song, “Juno.”
Carpenter’s angry response ratioed the White House with more than a million likes and sparked hundreds of memes, as fans celebrated her outspokenness.
What Did Sabrina Carpenter Say?
The official White House X account posted an edited montage of ICE deportations, set to the song “Juno,” with the repeated line, “Have you ever tried this one?”
The White House account on X is known to be extremely online and often references popular memes, posting unsettling imagery of immigrant arrests blended with playful pop songs or generative AI-edits, such as the Studio Ghibli trend.
The “Juno” edit was meant to mimic a viral TikTok trend in which Carpenter fans mimic their favorite pop star, miming sex positions while the phrase “Have you ever tried this one?” plays.
In the White House edit, the footage features immigrants being chased, handcuffed and shoved to the ground.
In her reply, Carpenter described the video as “evil and disgusting,” and warned the White House not to use her music to “benefit your inhumane agenda.”
X users voted using the “like” button—the original White House post received 85 thousand likes, but Carpenter’s reply boasts more than 1.6 million, with fans declaring a triumphant “ratio”—the people, it seems, have spoken.
Carpenter fans and Trump critics united, making memes and cracking jokes, many creating mock-up images of Carpenter as a revolutionary leftist.
Some pointed out the resemblance between young Hillary Clinton and Sabrina Carpenter, noting that the two were united against a common enemy.
Commentators were surprised by the amount of “likes” that Carpenter managed to gain on X, with the general assumption being that X swung sharply to the right after Elon Musk’s acquisition of the site.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded to Carpenter, stating:
