Video Of Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood Asking People To Donate Money To Ukraine Goes Viral For The 3rd Time, & The Internet Is Still Mad About It

Quinn Eaton·
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Garth Brooks

Once again…. context matters people.

Earlier today, we wrote about a viral clip of Dolly Parton sending support to the people of Ukraine. The clip was actually from the 2022 ACM Awards, which aired just a couple months after Russia invaded. But in the wake of President Trump and JD Vance’s explosive meeting with Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, it has gone viral again… with many acting like Dolly sent it as a direct response to what happened at the White House… and naturally, they’re MAD.

Of course, the outrage is completely lacking the proper context. And now, the same thing is happening to Garth and Trisha. To those that think Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood just whipped this “help Ukraine” video up that’s currently getting a lot of attention on social media, you’d be wrong. This video is actually from April of 2022, and was a part of a digital campaign titled Stand Up for Ukraine, which aimed to raise money for the country’s efforts in its fight against Russia.

In the video, Garth and Trisha asked people to “dig into their pockets” to assist Ukrainians during the war effort. Yearwood kicked things off by saying:

“There’s a global initiative and supplies are already spread thin, and this is where you come in. We need your help. We need you to donate.”

Garth Brooks then added:

“We always ask for love and prayers, and please keep doing that, but we’re also going to ask you: dig in your pockets, be part of the greatest global relief plan mankind has ever seen.”

Yearwood then finished with one final plea:

“Everybody deserves dignity, everybody deserves a roof over their head; to feel safe. You can be a part of that.”

Funny enough, this video actually started recirculating back in July of 2o23, and it even prompted country music artists John Rich and Travis Tritt to respond in disagreement, saying that America should look after their own borders first. Fast forward to 2025, and the video being reposted again has started another internet firestorm.

And don’t get me wrong, the video is incredibly cringy (par for the course with Garth), but it’s pretty wild that one video has made people upset in 2022, 2023 and 2025.

Side note: If you want to stream Garth’s music, grab a free trial of Amazon Music, the only service that G has his music on (though no one on Earth understands why that is.)

Obviously, the conversation involving the United States and Ukraine has gotten a boost in attention due to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent visit to the White House that didn’t exactly go as planned. Videos of the Oval Office meeting between Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance are still circulating online days after the heated exchange took place.

The Ukrainian President was supposed to be meeting with Trump to discuss a potential rare earth-minerals deal between the United States and Ukraine. But the world leaders never got far enough to tackle that subject, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White House shortly after the Oval Office meeting – to borrow from the great Ron Burgundy – escalated quickly.

During the tense conversation, the Ukrainian President told President Trump and Vice President Vance that they would “feel” the pressures of war in the future, among other things that didn’t sit well with them. Vance in particular took offense to that, and suggested that Zelenskyy show gratitude for America multiple times. Trump even told the Ukrainian leader that he doesn’t “have the cards right now” in reference to Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia.

All in all, it was a big mess, and someone online saw it as the perfect opportunity to dig up and repost the Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood video:

And you best believe that social media users just assumed that Garth and Trisha filmed this today. The internet flooded the reply section of this post with nasty remarks condemning the country music couple for asking others to help with Ukraine. Just a subtle reminder… this is the third time this exact same video has garnered this exact same response:

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