A part of being sworn in as President is a promise to uphold the Structure. Few issues undermine a promise to uphold our Supreme Regulation fairly like utilizing your social media presence to broadcast fantasies of being topped king and dropping shit over residents exercising their proper to free speech:
It bears repeating: when individuals present you who they’re, imagine them. It isn’t stunning that Trump confirmed such open disdain over the usage of free speech — he not too long ago spoke about “taking the liberty of speech away” with out a lot as an oopsie:
“We took the liberty of speech away.”
– The President of the USA.
— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) October 9, 2025
What’s stunning is that he thought that he’d be capable to use Kenny Loggin’s music for shitting on America propaganda with out getting an instantaneous stop and desist letter. NPR has protection:
In an announcement despatched to NPR Monday morning, Loggins wrote: “That is an unauthorized use of my efficiency of ‘Hazard Zone.’ No one requested me for my permission, which I might have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is eliminated instantly.”
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“I can’t think about why anyone would need their music used or related to one thing created with the only real function of dividing us. Too many individuals are attempting to tear us aside, and we have to discover new methods to return collectively. We’re all Individuals, and we’re all patriotic. There isn’t a ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we’re, neither is it what we must be. It’s all of us. We’re on this collectively, and it’s my hope that we will embrace music as a manner of celebrating and uniting each certainly one of us.”
Wow, even rock stars deal with even handedness, unity and peace higher than the President. The final time Donald Trump had the chance to take action on a nationwide stage, he determined to make use of the time to speak about how a lot he doesn’t need good to befall his enemies.
Kenny Loggins is just not the primary well-known artist to cease Trump from utilizing his music for political ends. In reality, we at Above The Regulation created a whole playlist of musicians which have both politely requested or upped the ante sufficient to sue Trump over utilizing their music on the marketing campaign path or at political occasions: you’ll be able to hearken to that playlist right here:
Anticipate to see Hazard Zone on the record as soon as I get round to remembering the log in credentials.
Trump’s Fake Video Featured ‘Danger Zone.’ Musician Kenny Loggins Wants It Scrubbed [NPR]
Earlier: You Could Make A Playlist Of All The Musicians Who Sued Trump For Playing Their Music
Chris Williams turned a social media supervisor and assistant editor for Above the Regulation in June 2021. Previous to becoming a member of the employees, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ within the Fb group Regulation Faculty Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri lengthy sufficient to graduate from Washington College in St. Louis Faculty of Regulation. He’s a former boatbuilder who’s studying to swim, is concerned about essential race idea, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for biking that sometimes annoys his friends. You may attain him by e mail at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
