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Donut-licking got Ariana Grande banned from the White House
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 26 July 2016
Ariana Grande seems to have lost out on the opportunity to perform for Barack Obama because of that time she licked a donut and then didn’t pay for it, and also because she said ‘ass’ on Twitter once.
As you may remember, a video of Grande licking a donut in a bakery and announcing that she hates both America and Americans was obtained by TMZ in July last year. This resulted in not one but two apologies from the singer, of varying quality.
An email chain between members of the Democratic National Committee, leaked on WikiLeaks, seemingly shows that two months later Grande’s antics got her turned down for a performance at the White House.
The reasoning, apparently, was that because she said she hates America, it might be seen as double standards that the Democrats were criticising Donald Trump for saying racist things about Mexicans, while welcoming someone who said daft things about America into the White House. Or something.
That might seem like a pretty spurious reason, though the fact that Grande hadn’t been vilified in the same way as Trump had already been raised by Republican congressmen Jeff Duncan. Oh America, you silly billy.
The vetting process also flagged up that, when a fan on Twitter had referred to Grande’s half-brother as “that homo”, the singer had responded by saying “‘that homo’ gets more ass than you’ll ever get in your life”.
No one actually mentions that licking a donut you don’t plan to buy is disgusting, and that she should be banned from the White House in case she starts randomly licking things. Though the email declining to book Grande does just say, “Nope, sorry”. And maybe that’s what that meant.
