Noah Kahan is now the latest artist to call out the White House for using his song in a social media post.
I know, what a crazy statement. Who would’ve thought twenty years ago that celebrities would be feuding with the White House over their music choices?
For those out of the loop, the actual White House has its very own verified social media accounts, yielding over 7 million followers on TikTok and a whopping 12.3 million followers on Instagram. And I gotta hand it to them; as the years have passed throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, they’ve really stepped up their game when it comes to their social media marketing.
If there’s a new trend on social media, they’re hopping on it; whether it be a new CapCut edit, a pop culture reference, or especially a hit chart-topping song. Most recently, they’ve used Zach Bryan’s “American Nights” in a promo video for the Great American State Fair, along with Ella Langley’s “Loving Life Again,” just to name a few.
Quite a few artists like Katy Perry, Sabrina Carpenter, Ariana Grande, and Nickelback have taken offense to the pages using their social media, calling out both the White House and Donald Trump’s administration as a whole. Most recently, Noah Kahan has joined in on voicing his disapproval of his song “American Cars” being put over a post of Donald Trump at an event in Milford, Michigan.
Fittingly, Trump took a visit to the General Motors Proving Grounds, touring the latest GM cars and signing his signature on one brand new Corvette, shown in a video posted to TikTok with Kahan’s 2026 hit from his chart-topping album, The Great Divide. They also used the audio on top of a swipe post on Instagram, and while many users called out the page given that the song’s lyrics don’t exactly match the motor vehicle theme, the song title does match perfectly to the big blue banner behind Trump in the first photo, which reads, “American Cars.”
The pop-folk singer took to the comment section to let it be known that he “Would never approve of my music being used in support of you or this administration.”
His fans also rallied behind him, with a majority of the 13.6 thousand comments saying things like, “Noah Kahan hates your guts btw,” and “did you ask @noahkahanmusic for permission to play American Cars?”
Unfortunately for the enraged fans of the “Stick Season” singer, the TikTok and Instagram audios are fair game for anyone to use unless, of course, it was a commercial post, which this one most likely was not. While many artists have still tried to get their audios removed by fighting back with copyright claims, in Noah’s case, his song continues to be used on the post.