You can add ABBA and the White Stripes to the long list of musical artists who want nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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A week after Foo Fighters went behind Donald Trump for using their music at a campaign event and said any royalties generated as a result would be donated to Kamala Harriscampaign of, leader of the White Stripes White Jack Likewise, it was made clear that his group wanted nothing to do with the former president.
After a Trump campaign aide used a clip of the band’s song “Seven Nation Army” in a pro-Trump social media post, White wrote on Instagram, “Don’t even think about using my music, fascists. Lawsuit coming from my attorney for this (to add to your 5k other lawsuits.) Have a great day at work today.” Margo Martin.” (Martin is Trump’s deputy communications director.) White added, “And as long as I’m here, DonOLD, you son of a bitch, will be reviled for insulting our country’s veterans at Arlington. You should lose the vote of every military family immediately if ANYTHING matters anymore.” (Two members of the Trump campaign reportedly got into a “verbal and physical altercation” with an Arlington National Cemetery official this week. A campaign spokesperson denied the physical altercation aspect of the story, but the Army has said it absolutely did happen.)
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A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond. Vanity Fairrequest for comment.
White’s words to Team Trump came on the same day that Swedish pop group ABBA asked the former president to stop using their music, telling the Swedish newspaper Swedish Dagbladet, “We, together with the members of [ABBA]discovered that videos had been released in which Abba music was used at Trump events and requested that such use be taken down and deleted immediately. Universal Music Publishing AB and Polar Music International AB have not received any requests, so no permission or license has been granted to Trump.” (In a statement, the Trump campaign said The Washington Post (It has a “license to play ABBA music” through an agreement with Broadcast Music and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.)
Other artists who have had issues with Trump include Celine Dion, Beyoncé, and the estate of the late Sinéad O’Connor. In 2018, Axl Rose Guns N’ Roses tweeted, “The Trump campaign is exploiting a loophole in the general performance licenses of various venues that were not intended for such despicable political purposes, without the consent of the musicians. Can you say ‘fuck?!'”
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