Trump Ordered to Stop Using Song at Rallies

Donald Trump has been taking some serious heat over the last few weeks over songs the campaign is using.

The Trump campaign was playing “My Hero” by the Foo Fighters when Kennedy recently entered a rally, outraging the band, but it was later revealed that Trump had secured the proper licensing for the song.

That does not appear to have been the case when the campaign played “Hold On, I’m Comin” by Isaac Hayes.

No License

A federal judge in Georgia just ruled that the campaign must stop playing this long at all future rallies and campaign events.

The song was played during the Republican National Convention in July, and Trump played the song again during his August 9 rally in Phoenix.

Hayes’ estate stated, “We are very pleased with the court’s decision.

“Donald Trump has been told he cannot use the music of Isaac Hayes without a license. That was our No. 1 goal. Now we work on the underlying trial and case.”

Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. issued the ruling, but he did not require Trump to remove the track from his recordings of the past events where the music had been played.

Donald Trump’s attorney, Ronald Coleman, stated that Trump’s campaign “had already agreed to cease further use” of the song and that it was “very gratified that the court recognized the First Amendment issues at stake and didn’t order a takedown of existing videos.”

That is a bit of a misstatement, however, as Trump never purchased the license, so he should not have the right to keep the music up, so that part of the ruling is a bit confusing to me.

This is far from the first time that Trump has used music at his rallies without permission, and I would think they would have learned their lesson by now.

Just buy the license and be done with it. After all, it is coming out of campaign cash, not his pocket, so I don’t understand why they keep doing this. More importantly, why has he not fired the moron that keeps using these songs without securing the proper licensing?