Jack White has slammed former President Trump's campaign and threatened legal action after one of his aides posted a video using a White Stripes song.
“Oh…don't even think about using my music, you fascists,” White said. he wrote on Instagram on Thursday..
“I am currently facing a lawsuit from my lawyer over this (in addition to your other 5,000),” White, one half of rock duo The White Stripes, wrote to his roughly 700,000 followers.
The legal threat came after Trump's deputy communications director, Margo Martin, posted a video clip of the 45th president climbing the steps of an airplane on his way to rallies in the battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin. As he made his way up the stairs, the opening riff of The White Stripes' 2003 hit “Seven Nation Army” played in the background.
“Margo Martin, have a great day at work today,” White, 49, said.
Martin did not immediately respond to ITK's request for comment, and posts on social platforms featuring the White Stripes song appeared to be removed on Thursday afternoon.
White also slammed Trump over a controversy surrounding the former commander in chief's visit to a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week. An Army spokesman said Thursday that an officer trying to enforce rules banning political activity on the cemetery's grounds was shoved away in an altercation that reportedly involved two Trump campaign staffers.
“And as long as I'm here, double damn to Donall for disrespecting our nation's veterans at Arlington, you scumbag,” White said.
“If that means anything, military families should immediately lose their voting rights,” the musician said.
This isn't the first time an artist has objected to the Trump campaign's use of their music. Last week, Foo Fighters said they hadn't given the Trump campaign permission to use their song “My Hero” at campaign rallies. In a statement to The Hill, a spokesperson for the band said all royalties from the song would be donated to Vice President Harris' campaign.
Earlier this month, Celine Dion distanced herself from the Trump campaign after her classic song “My Heart Will Go On” was performed at the former president's rally in Montana.
“Such use is in no way authorized and Celine Dion has not endorsed this or any similar use…and what about that song?” a statement posted to Dion's Instagram account, referring to the smash hit from the 1997 film Titanic.
