Jack White Threatens Donald Trump Campaign With Legal Action: “Don’t Even Think About Using My Music You Fascists”
Jack White is not messing around and doesn’t want to be associated with Donald Trump and his third presidential run for the White House.
Margo Martin, the Trump campaign’s deputy director of communications, shared a video of Trump departing and boarding a plane for rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin. In the now-deleted video Martin shared on X (formerly Twitter), the White Stripes song “Seven Nation Army” was used, which prompted White’s reaction.
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“Oh….Don’t even think about using my music you fascists,” Jack said in a statement shared on Instagram along with Martin’s post. “Lawsuit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others.) Have a great day at work today Margo Martin.”
White continued, “And as long as I’m here, a double fuck you DonOLD for insulting our nation’s veterans at Arlington you scum. You should lose every military family’s vote immediately from that if ANYTHING makes sense anymore.”
White joins other musicians including ABBA, Foo Fighters and Celine Dion who have publicly expressed their discontent with their music being associated with Trump.
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Foo Fighters recently said they didn’t approve of their song “My Hero” to play at a Trump rally in Arizona. The Trump campaign clapped back and said it had licensed their music through the BMI Songview service.
Earlier this month, Dion’s team also publicly rejected the Trump campaign’s use of the singer’s “My Heart Will Go On” during a rally.
“In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,” read a statement from Dion’s team on August 10. “…And really, THAT song?”
A throng of musicians teaming with the Artist Rights Alliance penning an open letter that called on major U.S. political parties to “establish clear policies requiring campaigns to seek consent of featured recording artists, songwriters and copyright owners before publicly using their music in a political or campaign setting.”
Signatories of that letter included the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Aerosmith, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Green Day, Jason Isbell, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, Alanis Morissette, Courtney Love, Linkin Park, Lykke Li, Train, Lionel Richie, Lorde, Sia and Regina Spektor.
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