
SZA tore into the White House on Wednesday after the administration shared a video on X featuring her vocals over footage of ICE agents carrying out arrests. The clip, posted to the official White House account, shows officers chasing and detaining people while audio of SZA singing “Big Boys”—from her 2022 Saturday Night Live sketch—plays over it. In a heated response on X, SZA accused the administration of deliberately baiting artists into reacting for engagement. Replying to her former manager, Terrence ‘Punch’ Henderson, who criticized the strategy, she wrote: “White House rage baiting artists for free promo is PEAK DARK .. inhumanity + shock and aw tactics .. Evil n Boring.” The backlash adds SZA to a growing list of performers publicly objecting to the White House’s use of their music in political messaging. Just last week, Sabrina Carpenter called out the administration for using her song “Juno” in a similar video. The clip was quietly deleted after she denounced what she described as the White House’s “inhumane agenda.”



















