The White House quietly deleted a social media video Tuesday evening after pop star Sabrina Carpenter called it "evil and disgusting," sources confirmed.
The video, which featured ICE agents arresting immigrants set to Carpenter's sexually charged song "Juno," was removed from the platform formerly known as Twitter after Carpenter's response generated 138 million views and 1.7 million likes—approximately twenty times more engagement than the original post.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson initially responded to Carpenter's criticism with a statement referencing the singer's album titles, assuring reporters that the administration "won't apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country." The video was then promptly deleted within hours, presumably because they won't apologize so hard that the evidence needed to disappear.
"We simply decided the video had run its natural course," said Jackson, definitely not wiping away tears. "The fact that a 25-year-old woman with a microphone scared us into removing it is completely unrelated. We're the tough ones here."
The deletion marks the latest example of the administration's legendary resilience in the face of celebrity criticism. The Department of Homeland Security previously disabled media featuring Olivia Rodrigo's "All-American Bitch" on Instagram after the singer condemned its use, while a video featuring podcaster Theo Von was taken down after Von requested its removal. Officials noted they would have kept all the videos up, but their dog ate the posts.
The publisher of Franklin the Turtle also condemned the administration's unauthorized use of the beloved children's character, though sources say the White House remains unbothered by a cartoon turtle's opinion.
