{"id":36359,"date":"2025-03-18T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/semisonic-denounces-white-house-use-of-closing-time-in-deportation-video\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:59:34","slug":"semisonic-denounces-white-house-use-of-closing-time-in-deportation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/semisonic-denounces-white-house-use-of-closing-time-in-deportation-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Semisonic denounces White House use of \u2018Closing Time\u2019 in deportation video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy-nominated band says Trump administration \u2018missed the point\u2019 and song is about \u2018joy, possibilities, hope\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The band Semisonic has said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump White House<\/a> \u201cmissed the point\u201d of its hit Closing Time \u201centirely\u201d when the administration used the Emmy-nominated song in a social media post showing a shackled person being deported.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Semisonic also said the White House did not have permission to use the song in that manner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/18\/semisonic-closing-time-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy-nominated band says Trump administration \u2018missed the point\u2019 and song is about \u2018joy, possibilities, hope\u2019 The band Semisonic has said the Donald Trump White House \u201cmissed the point\u201d of its hit Closing Time \u201centirely\u201d when the administration used the Emmy-nominated song in a social media post showing a shackled person being deported. A statement from &#8230; <a title=\"Semisonic denounces White House use of \u2018Closing Time\u2019 in deportation video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/semisonic-denounces-white-house-use-of-closing-time-in-deportation-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Semisonic denounces White House use of \u2018Closing Time\u2019 in deportation video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}