Zach Bryan Teases New Song Condemning ICE Raids, Warns of the ‘Fading of the Red, White, and Blue’

On Friday, Zach Bryan teased an unreleased song that takes aim at President Donald Trump’s ICE raids.

Bryan, one of country music’s biggest stars, used his social media to share moments from the unreleased song (or possibly a demo recording of it). The track is believed to be titled “Bad News,” according to Entertainment Weekly.

In the song, Bryan warns of a “fading of the red, white, and blue” amid immigration raids occurring across the country. Earlier this month, an ICE agent allegedly said ” f**k them kids” while children were detained during a raid on a Chicago apartment building.

“And ICE is gonna come bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more / But I got a telephone,” Bryan sings on the track.

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“Kids are all scared and all alone / The Boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling / The middle fingers rising and it won’t stop showing / I got some bad news / The fading of the red, white, and blue,” the lifelong Bruce Springsteen fan sings elsewhere on the song.

Bryan praised Trump following the assassination attempt on the then-presidential candidate last year and was also pictured with him, TIME reports.

Conservative country music singer John Rich criticized Bryan on X, writing: “Who’s ready for the Zach Bryan-Dixie Chicks tour? Prob a huge Bud Light sponsorship for this one.”

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at a South Shore, Chicago apartment building devastated local families and neighbors. According to ABC7, witnesses described agents as mocking and laughing while tearing families apart.

“They was terrified,” said neighbor Eboni Watson. “The kids was crying. People was screaming. … I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other… What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘ f**k them kids.’”

Last week, ICE confirmed that agents will be deployed to the Super Bowl in Santa Clara after Bad Bunny was announced as the 2026 halftime performer.