When Lizzo sang, “Turn up the music, let’s celebrate,” Donald Trump‘s widely protested military birthday parade was not what she had in mind.
After video of a performer singing Lizzo’s Billboard Hot 100-topping hit “About Damn Time” at the event in Washington, D.C., on Saturday (June 14) surfaced online, the hitmaker made her feelings quite clear in a TikTok posted over the weekend. Stitching the clip with a few seconds of footage of the parade singer’s breathless live rendition of the self-love anthem — performed in front of a gathering on the National Mall — Lizzo then cuts to a shot of herself staring pointedly at the camera, looking perplexed and disgusted.
“cease & desist,” she wrote in the caption.
The choice to perform “About Damn Time” at Trump’s procession was certainly an interesting one, as Lizzo — who endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election — has made her disapproval of the twice-impeached POTUS very clear over the years.
She’s not the only one. While Trump was celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday — as well as his own 79th birthday, which was also Saturday — through a grand show of military might in D.C., a slew of “No Kings” gatherings broke out across the country in protest of his administration. Those overlapped with the ongoing protests in Los Angeles against the country’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which recently launched raids into multiple workplaces across the city in the name of alleged immigration violations.
Lizzo also posted several times about the ICE raids on Bluesky a few days prior to her TikTok about the military parade. “The irony of an ice agent forcing a Mexican person off of their ancestral land when that agent’s ancestors are European immigrants is just…,” she wrote in one post, adding in another: “And still … there are people who voted for this who are going to sleep with a smile on their faces pleased as pie … It’s a wild world y’all.”
See Lizzo’s TikTok below.
