Donald Trump’s administration has been slammed by the band Semisonic for utilizing their hit tune “Closing Time” in a controversial deportation video shared on social media.

The White Home and Border Patrol’s official Instagram accounts posted a video exhibiting brokers looking out undocumented immigrants earlier than deportation, set to the group’s 1998 observe.

Their put up was captioned with lyrics from the tune, studying: “‘You don’t should go house however you possibly can’t keep right here’ @borderpatrol.”

Minneapolis-based band Semisonic has now responded to the usage of their music in an announcement to DailyMail.com.

They stated: “We didn’t authorize or condone the White Home’s use of our tune in any manner. And no, they didn’t ask.

“The tune is about pleasure and potentialities and hope, and so they have missed the purpose fully.”

The observe was written by frontman Dan Wilson, 63, who has beforehand spoken about its that means.

In a 2018 interview with Billboard, the musician defined “Closing Time” was partially impressed by the beginning of his daughter, Coco.

He stated: “The blokes wished a brand new tune to shut our units with. I assumed ‘Closing Time’ could be title.

“We had spent seven years of our lives at that time, 4 nights every week entertaining folks. That was our life.

Some bouncers yelling issues, closing time coming, all that imagery – actually, that’s how the tune began.

“After which after I was midway carried out, I began realizing the entire thing was a pun about being born, so I simply made certain that the remainder of the factor may experience with that double that means. However no person acquired the joke and I didn’t hassle to elucidate. I assumed everybody would get it.”

Dan has continued a profitable profession in songwriting and co-wrote the Grammy Award-winning 2011 Adele observe “Somebody Like You.”

“Closing Time” grew to become a significant hit within the late Nineties, reaching No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Fashionable Rock Tracks chart and charting within the prime 50 in Australia, Eire, New Zealand and the UK.