White House Responds to Zach Bryan’s Lyrics Criticizing ICE: ‘Americans Disagree With Him’
Zach Bryan has upset the United States government with his new song, and he hasn’t even released it yet.
Days after the singer posted a snippet of a forthcoming track that included the lyric “ICE is gonna come bust down your door,” a representative for the White House shared a statement with Newsweek on Tuesday (Oct. 7) slamming Bryan. But while spokesperson Abigail Jackson may not be a fan of the unreleased piece of music, she showed that she’s at least a big enough fan of the Grammy winner to know the titles of his other songs, which she sprinkled throughout the statement.
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“While Zach Bryan wants to Open the Gates to criminal illegal aliens and has Condemned heroic ICE officers, Something in the Orange tells me a majority of Americans disagree with him and support President Trump’s great American Revival,” Jackson said. “Godspeed, Zach!”
Billboard has reached out to Bryan’s rep for comment.
The statement comes four days after the musician shared a clip of the unreleased song in question on Instagram. The full verse finds him crooning, “I heard the cops came/ Cocky motherf–kers, ain’t they?/ And ICE is gonna come bust down your door/ Try to build a house no one builds no more/ But I got a telephone/ Kids are all scared and all alone.”
In the caption, Bryan wrote, “The fading of the red white and blue.”
Though the artist has previously posed with Donald Trump for a photo, it now seems he’s one of many Americans against the White House’s ongoing mass deportations, which the president has been promising to carry out since the beginning of his 2024 campaign. Numerous other artists have also spoken out about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on immigrant communities in different parts of the country.
Jackson also isn’t the only government official to comment on Bryan’s new song. Also on Tuesday, Tricia McLaughlin — the assistant secretary of public affairs to the Department of Homeland Security — told Billboard in a statement, “Stick to ‘Pink Skies,’ dude.”
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