Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

February 27, 2026 - 19:23 UTC

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I love that they told off the kicking, squealing, Gucci, little piggy! ✊🏻
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Your alarm bells they should be ringing.
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When you are enslaved to a klanbaby who grabs whatever he wants it's nice to see musicians, judges & all the pro democracy marchers stand up to this weak moron.
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I used to hate Radiohead but now? I'll let em bore me anytime
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I'm a giant Radiohead fan and had a hearty laugh. Thanks, man.
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SIE THEIR ASSES OFF WTF THAT IS WTF THEY WOULD DO‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
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🔥🔥🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥✌️😎‼️
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But they have no problem with Israel?
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BRAVO
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Love to see this from my boys
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USA hockey player who plays in Canada didn't actually ask the White House to take down the fake video they made of him insulting Canadians.

He's clearly unhappy though.
globalnews.ca/news/11709704/brady-tkachuk-white-house-video/
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Eventually every excuse, including in court, will be that AI did it, not me. He's just another ugly American.
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I guess they think Trump is... a creep
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Someone should do _that_ social media video.
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I mean, he is a weirdo.
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☠️☠️☠️ epic.
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He’s a weirdo
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I'm sorry, but Zionists don't get the moral high ground.
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But Radiohead loves genocide
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PROJECT 2025 alleged pedophiles! JACK
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they should have used radiohead to justify murdering palestinian children instead, then radiohead would have been all for it
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Why don’t they sue them for a few $Bill for damage to their reputation?

Perhaps it should be a class action where other artists whose music was similarly misused can join in.
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What was the issue? They already promised the IDF exclusive rights?
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Yorke condemned Netanyahu & the Israeli government as early as 2017 & has called the Gaza situation a humanitarian catastrophe, sorry to spoil your hate party

pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-thom-yorke-releases-statement-on-israel-and-gaza/
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Wow!
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Radiohead can join the long list of artists whose music the Trump regime has used without permission. Tom Petty's estate is top of the list for them using I Won't Back Down during the campaign. Lara Trump also mangled it doing karaoke at MaraLargo.
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But I thought music was supposed to be above political concerns
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Sue them @radiohead.wastehq.social . Love you
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This is the way.
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'Journalists' who choose to make their reporting inaccessible can also go fuck themselves
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Scott Tenorman must cease and desist.
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Good for Radiohead.

Also, Thom Yorke sucks. A lot of his other political stances are good, but it gets washed away by his support for the genocide of Palestinians.
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He played in Israel in 2017 and said at the time "We don’t endorse Netanyahu any more than Trump, but we still play in America."

He got mad at someone interrupting a concert in 2024 looking for an explicit statement of condemnation.

What "support" of genocide are you actually asking about here?
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ICE shouldn’t have messes with THE Karma Police
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too bad for them, laws are selectively enforced in this country
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Please use alt text. Added below.
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Thanks. Now I could share it. 👏👏👏
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Seriously. How hard was that?
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👍👍
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They’d prefer the song be used in an idf vid instead
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Plenty of Hitler hairdos making me feel ill these days.
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Americans, people. Palestinians, not people. Got it.

Oh look this post is hidden in the replies.
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Not Radiohead for gunmen.
Court for those who break the law.
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I sincerely doubt anyone in the Trump admin listens to Radiohead. How did this song even get on their radar? Some meme?

Anyone with a shallow working knowledge of Radiohead, as I’dassume is all the deeper these incels go, would just pick karma police.
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There's a lot of GenXers in this admin. They probably thought "OK Computer" was cool when they were in their 20s, without ever actually listening to the lyrics.
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It's so funny that they know their musicians music is subpar so have to steal from our bands
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New: Radiohead tells Trump's ICE to take down a video using their song

"We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down," the band says.

(DHS/ICE didn't immediately return a request for comment.)

www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/radiohead-tells-trumps-ice-take-video-using-song-rcna261010
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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amusing to see oxford posh boys using "ain't"
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That's cute.
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With alt-text
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Radiohead:
Please, please sue them.
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For 10 Billions dollars
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Sue! Only thing Trump understands!
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“This is what you’ll get / this is what you’ll get / if you mess with us…”
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The fact that they are producing ads glorifying killing and mistreating Americans is just gross behavior
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My favorite band with my favorite song.
I just can’t.
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I’d be traumatized if I heard one of the best songs ever created associated with ICE or any Trump related scumbags.
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How to Disappear Completely would have been a more appropriate choice for ICE anyway. Doubly so.
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That’s the way to do it.
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The GOP usually has harsh things to say about people who take things without paying for them. 🤔
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Or, as they used to be eager call them, vicious criminals
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Their new love of all things done without consent trumps that.
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And their work is great too!! 😉
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@hootsuite.com violation of TOS
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My favorite band hell no get that shit down!
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Funny they keep using songs that aren't by Lee Greenwood or Kid Rock.
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it's also the case that "taking" of things that aren't already associated with them is part of the point. it's a flex, like when they use ghibli AI art because Miyazaki is vocally against AI
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Well stated!
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I’d say that was very clearly said! Right on, Radiohead!
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Was never a big fan but I am now.
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Hail to the thief…
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just dandy with genocide and boycott-breaking tho
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Yeah goes to show even assholes hate ICE
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The American people need to get the Karma Police after ICEs ass.
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@radiohead.wastehq.social who famously supports the ICE (IOF) in Palestine? Whatever. Still canceled.
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Attention: This is not a moral stance, but a financial one. They just didn't get a cut
@radiohead.wastehq.social already told us who they really were.

#AbolishICE
#DeathToTheIDF
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Radiohead
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Fantastic
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Radiohead! 💪🏼💪🏾💪🏻💪🏿💪🏽
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To bad they didn't put in the line, thank you for your attention to this matter RH
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I love you Radiohead!
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Interesting use of IP law as protest. Artists pushing back on government misuse of their work feels significant.
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Trump and Republicans have been using songs without permission for years. They are thieves and crooks. And, the political right has no good music
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The legalese used in this statement is unambiguous...
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