One week after the Foo Fighters went after Donald Trump for utilizing their music at a marketing campaign occasion and stated any royalties generated because of this will likely be donated to Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign, White Stripes frontman Jack White equally made clear that his group needs nothing to do with the ex-president.
After a Trump marketing campaign aide used a clip of the band’s track “Seven Nation Military” in a pro-Trump social media submit, White wrote on Instagram, “Don’t even consider using my music you fascists. Legislation swimsuit coming from my attorneys about this (so as to add to your 5 thousand others.) Have an incredible day at work at present Margo Martin.” (Martin is Trump’s deputy director of communications.) White added, “And so long as I’m right here, a double fuck you DonOLD for insulting our nation’s veterans at Arlington you scum. It’s best to lose each army household’s vote instantly from that if ANYTHING is sensible anymore.” (Two members of the Trump marketing campaign reportedly had a “verbal and bodily altercation” with an Arlington Nationwide Cemetery official this week. A spokesperson for the marketing campaign denied the physical-altercation side of the story, however the Military said in an announcement that it completely occurred.)
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White’s phrases for Crew Trump got here the identical day that the Swedish musical act ABBA demanded the ex-president cease utilizing its music, telling Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, “We, along with the members of [ABBA], have found that movies have been launched the place Abba’s music has been used at Trump’s occasions and have requested that such use be instantly taken down and eliminated. Common Music Publishing AB and Polar Music Worldwide AB haven’t acquired any request, so no permission or license has been granted to Trump.” (In an announcement, the Trump marketing campaign told The Washington Publish it had a “license to play ABBA music” via an settlement with Broadcast Music and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.)
Different artists who’ve taken concern with being related to Trump embrace Céline Dion, Beyoncé, and the property of the late Sinéad O’Connor. In 2018, Axl Rose of Weapons N’ Roses tweeted, “The Trump marketing campaign is utilizing loopholes within the varied venues’ blanket efficiency licenses which weren’t supposed for such craven political functions, with out the songwriters’ consent. Can u say ‘shitbags?!’”
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