Zach Bryan has some thoughts on the state of his country in a new song he’s teasing on Instagram.
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In a recent post, the country star shared a voice-note snippet of an unreleased track. “I heard the cops came/ Cocky motherf–kers, ain’t they?” he sings over his classic blend of rootsy guitar and drums.
Bryan then goes on to directly call out the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which, under Donald Trump’s administration, has spent the past several months deporting people in mass quantities. The increase in ICE’s often militaristic presence in American cities has sparked protests all over the U.S., while numerous artists have condemned the raids.
“And ICE is gonna come bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more/ But I got a telephone/ Kids are all scared and all alone,” Bryan sings on his unreleased track. “The middle finger’s rising, and it won’t stop showing/ Got some bad news/ The fading of the red, white and blue.”
In the caption, the musician simply reiterated the snippet’s final line: “The fading of the red, white and blue,” he wrote.
Bryan’s post comes as tensions surrounding ICE are reaching a fever pitch in the U.S. Despite the protests, Trump’s administration has remained steadfast in its mass deportation policies — to the extent that one of the president’s advisors recently said that immigration officers would be present at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2026.
“There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,” Corey Lewandowski’s said in an Oct. 1 appearance on “The Benny Show.” “Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you and apprehend you and put you in a detention facility and deport you.”
Bryan did not say in his post when fans will get to hear the full version of the new song. He last dropped an album in July of last year, with The Great American Bar Scene reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Listen to Bryan’s new song snippet below.
