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Jess Glynne has responded to the White House’s use of the Jet2 Holiday meme, which features her hit “Hold My Hand,” to promote ICE deportations
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“This post honestly makes me sick,” the British singer wrote on her Instagram Stories
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The Trump administration used the meme to mock immigrants seen in a video being put into restraints and boarded onto planes
Jess Glynne has responded to the White House’s use of the Jet2 Holiday meme, which features her song “Hold My Hand.”
In a post shared Wednesday, July 30 on her Instagram Stories, Glynne slammed the Donald Trump administration’s “sick” use of her song to promote the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deportation of immigrants.
“This post honestly makes me sick. My music is about love, unity, and spreading positivity — never about division or hate,” the British artist, 35, wrote over a screengrab of the White House’s own social media post featuring a video depicting what appears to be immigrants being put into restraints and boarded onto planes by authorities.
“When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation,” the White House posted to X on Tuesday, adding, “Nothing beats it!”
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The clip in the administration’s post is set to the audio — which has since gone viral on TikTok — of a cheerful 2024 commercial advertising a “Jet2 holiday” with Glynne’s 2015 song “Hold My Hand” playing in the background.
The chipper audio has recently taken the internet by storm after TikTok users started posting videos of the advert promising a discount vacation package ironically set over travel fails, from discovering a hotel room has a tiny window or nearly falling out of a zipline harness and dangling by the feet for the rest of the ride.
Since taking off in recent weeks, Glynne has embraced the meme by poking fun of it on Instagram. While promoting a new song, she captioned the clip with “How mad! It’s £200 off for a family of 4 when you go listen to BACK TO ME !”
She also met Zoë Lister, the 43-year-old voice actor from Cookham, England who provides the upbeat voice in the commercial. The two came together on the U.K. radio station CapitalFM on July 21, when Gynne gave her best shot at imitating Lister’s iconic Jet2 catchphrase — “Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday” — before the pair embraced in a warm hug.
However, Glynne was less thrilled with the White House’s version of the meme, which also garnered negative feedback from users on X. “This is gross,” one user responded, while another asked, “What if Jet2 sues you?”
Even supporters questioned the use of the Jet2 Holiday meme, with one writing, “Even as a Trump supporter, that was on the cringe side.”
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