U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks with Laura Wilkerson at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 23, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
The British alternative rock band Radiohead is furious that President Donald Trump's administration is using one of their songs to promote U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The track "Let Down" was appropriated as a choral version and used on a social media post with a montage of victims of violence that the Department of Homeland Security claims were at the hands of "illegal aliens" attacking Americans, Variety reported.
The text of the video reads, “Thousands of American families have been torn apart because of criminal illegal alien violence. American citizens raped and murdered by those who have no right to be in our country. This is who we fight for. This is our why.”
In a joint statement released Friday, the bandmates said, “We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain’t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don’t get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go f— yourselves… Radiohead.”
In a separate statement, the spokesperson for Radiohead said it “goes without saying it was without the band’s permission."
Radiohead is just the latest in a long line of artists who have ordered takedown notices to Trump after he used their music.
Variety cited Olivia Rodrigo, who blasted ICE in November over their use of her song "All America B—."
“Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,” she wrote about a video showing federal agents chasing someone.
Wikipedia keeps a long-running list of the artists who have demanded that the president stop using their music. They range from Abba to the French singer Yoann Lemoine. It includes some of the biggest names in the music business like Queen, R.E.M., Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Les Misérables creators Cameron Mackintosh and Alain Boublil, Luciano Pavarotti and even Nickelback.