By now, we know Lizzo is not one to mince words, particularly when her music gets dragged into places it obviously doesn’t belong. Last Friday (June 14), the Grammy-winning force made it abundantly clear that she’s not going to stand for her hit tune “About Damn Time” playing at a birthday bash for Donald Trump.
At a military-themed celebration in Washington, D.C., ostensibly convened to celebrate both the 250th anniversary of the Army and Trump’s 79th birthday, someone decided it would be an excellent idea to blare Lizzo’s funky-leaning self-love anthem over the speakers. An anthem of empowerment, healing, and joy blasting over a parade for the man she has been openly critical of for years? She didn’t appreciate that.
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Never reticent to speak her truth, Lizzo posted a side-by-side clip: on one side, footage of the Trump event with her song blaring; on the other, Lizzo herself, giving a look that screamed, “Excuse me!?! ” and a caption that said just what needed to be said: “cease and desist.”
It’s not currently known if any legal action has been filed as of this writing, but the message is loud and clear: Lizzo does not want to be associated with Trump or his events.
Just a few days before the parade, Lizzo had jumped on the social platform Bluesky to attack the Trump administration over their immigration policy shortly after ICE raids had occurred in Los Angeles. She did no-holds-barred things, and she addressed the question of the border and ownership.
“There is no such thing as ‘illegal,’ there are no ‘borders’, no one actually ‘owns’ the land on this planet,” she wrote.
Then she cut even deeper, exposing the ugly roots of the system: “When people come together and finally realize that these terms and ideas are tools of racism and capitalism, we can really be free.”
If that wasn’t enough to elicit an oral argument, she also included a harsh ad-lib about ICE agents displacing Mexican communities: “The irony of an ICE agent telling people that in their home when here people have been mowing lawns, tilling fields, raising babies is oh my God, I can’t even.”
For good measure, she called for a deep rethinking of current immigration enforcement, which she said amounted to “regime prep.” For Lizzo, this isn’t just politics but personal and principled.
So when her anthem, one that’s virtually a rejoinder to everything that Trump-era politics typically stands for, is blared at a parade honoring the literal man himself? Yeah. She has every right to be angry.
Whether this leads to an official legal cease, Lizzo’s warning sounds as on point as the song’s opening bassline: Do not use her voice to hype a party she’d never set foot in.
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