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Kesha<\/a> called out the Donald Trump<\/a> administration on Monday for trying to \u201cincite violence and threaten war\u201d with a clip set to her music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The pop star responded on social media<\/a> to the White House<\/a> sharing an edited clip, set to the soundtrack of her hit \u201cBlow,\u201d that depicts a fighter jet launching a missile before it hits a ship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n (Note: The ship appears to be<\/a> a decommissioned U.S. Navy frigate that Australian, Canadian, Malaysian and American forces sunk<\/a> in a 2022 warfare exercise.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cLethality \ud83d\udd25\ud83e\udd85,\u201d reads the caption of the TikTok clip shared<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kesha condemned the White House for using one of her songs to \u201cincite violence and threaten war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cTrying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane. I absolutely do NOT approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind,\u201d wrote Kesha, who<\/a> is<\/a> among<\/a> a number<\/a> of<\/a> musical acts<\/a> that have slammed the president and his administration for the use of their music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cLove always trumps hate. please love yourself and each other in times like this This show of blatant disregard for human life and quite frankly this attack on all of our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She added a reminder of Trump\u2019s ties to his old buddy, late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, writing, \u201cAlso, don\u2019t let this distract us from the fact that criminal predator Donald Trump appears in the Files over a million times.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said in viewing the Justice Department\u2019s unredacted files on Epstein, \u201cI typed in the words \u2018Trump,\u2019 \u2018Donald or Don\u2019 and it came up with more than a million results<\/a>.\u201d And The New York Times reported<\/a> that the files contain over 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago estate and related words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, in response to Kesha, suggested that \u201call these \u2018singers\u2019 keep falling\u201d for the administration using their music on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they\u2019re bitching about,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The pop star hit back with a blunt reply<\/a>, \u201cStop using my music, perverts @WhiteHouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The White House, when asked why it\u2019s \u201cLethality\u201d hype video shows the sinking of an old American ship named after Marine Sgt. Rodney Maxwell Davis, a Medal of Honor recipient, replied with links to Cheung\u2019s post and another<\/a> likening Kesha\u2019s post to \u201cPopeye\u2019s Spinach\u201d for the communications team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n