White House Responds to Zach Bryan’s Lyrics Criticizing ICE: ‘Americans Disagree With Him’

Zach Bryan has upset the United States authorities with his caller song, and helium hasn’t adjacent released it yet.

Days aft the vocalist posted a snippet of a forthcoming way that included the lyric “ICE is gonna travel bust down your door,” a typical for the White House shared a connection with Newsweek connected Tuesday (Oct. 7) slamming Bryan. But portion spokesperson Abigail Jackson whitethorn not beryllium a instrumentality of the unreleased portion of music, she showed that she’s astatine slightest a large capable instrumentality of the Grammy victor to cognize the titles of his different songs, which she sprinkled passim the statement.

“While Zach Bryan wants to Open the Gates to transgression amerciable aliens and has Condemned heroic ICE officers, Something successful the Orange tells maine a bulk of Americans disagree with him and enactment President Trump’s large American Revival,” Jackson said. “Godspeed, Zach!”

Billboard has reached retired to Bryan’s rep for comment.

The connection comes 4 days aft the instrumentalist shared a clip of the unreleased opus successful question connected Instagram. The afloat verse finds him crooning, “I heard the cops came/ Cocky motherf–kers, ain’t they?/ And ICE is gonna travel bust down your door/ Try to physique a location nary 1 builds nary more/ But I got a telephone/ Kids are each frightened and each alone.”

In the caption, Bryan wrote, “The fading of the reddish achromatic and blue.”

Though the creator has antecedently posed with Donald Trump for a photo, it present seems he’s 1 of galore Americans against the White House’s ongoing wide deportations, which the president has been promising to transportation retired since the opening of his 2024 campaign. Numerous different artists person also spoken out astir the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids connected migrant communities successful antithetic parts of the country.

Jackson besides isn’t the lone authorities authoritative to remark connected Bryan’s caller song. Also connected Tuesday, Tricia McLaughlin — the adjunct caput of nationalist affairs to the Department of Homeland Security — told Billboard in a statement, “Stick to ‘Pink Skies,’ dude.”