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The Rolling Stones Tell Trump: Stop Playing Our Songs

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Musicians in Hollywood love to get political….. just not when it comes to Donald Trump. The Rolling Stones have put the Trump campaign on notice that they do not want the band’s songs played at Trump rallies or any other event supporting his bid for president.

Politico reports:

“The Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trump campaign to use their songs and have requested that they cease all use immediately,” a representative for the band said in a statement issued Wednesday, as reported by the BBC, hours after Trump took to the stage at Trump Tower to the strains of “Start Me Up.” Trump has also used the Stones standard “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” on multiple occasions at his rallies, as well as “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Brown Sugar.”

… The candidate’s playlist at one point also included Adele and Aerosmith, who both sent cease-and-desist letters with which Trump complied. After Trump played R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” the band’s frontman Michael Stipe — a Bernie Sanders supporter — wrote Trump asking him to stop using his music for his “moronic charade of a campaign.”

The law is actually pretty complicated when it comes to using songs for a political campaign, but the band’s main point was to get it on the record that Donald Trump does not represent the politics of The Rolling Stones.

This is not the first time a music legend butted heads with a political candidate (most famously Bruce Springsteen and Ronald Reagan).

Will Trump respond? Typically, the campaigns just quietly replace the song in question with another one, avoiding the optics of fighting with a popular celebrity. However, as this campaign cycle continues to remind us, American politics has never seen a political candidate quite like Donald Trump.

Deneen Borelli

Deneen Borelli is the author of Blacklash: How Obama and the Left are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation. Deneen is a contributor with Newsmax Broadcasting. She is a former Fox News contributor and has appeared regularly on “Hannity,” “Fox & Friends,” “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” and “America’s Newsroom.” She has also appeared on Fox Business Network programs “Making Money with Charles Payne,” “The Evening Edit with Liz MacDonald,” and “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.” Previously, Deneen appeared on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and C-SPAN. In addition to television, Deneen co-hosted radio programs on the SiriusXM Patriot channel with her husband Tom. Recently, Deneen co-hosted the Reigniting Liberty podcast with Tom. Deneen is a frequent speaker at political events, including the FreedomWorks 9.12.2009 March on D.C. which drew a crowd estimated at over 800,000 people. Deneen is also an Ambassador with CloutHub.com, a social media platform that promotes free speech, and with the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) which advances policies that put Americans first. Deneen testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources in May 2011 and before the Ohio House Public Utilities Committee in December 2011. Previously, Deneen was a BlazeTV.com host, Outreach Director with FreedomWorks.org overseeing its Empower.org outreach program, a Project 21 Senior Fellow, and Manager of Media Relations with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Prior to joining CORE, Deneen worked at Philip Morris USA for 20 years. During her corporate career at Philip Morris she worked in various positions, her last as Project Management Coordinator in the Information Management department where she was responsible for the department’s mandated quality processes, communications, sales information and database management. Deneen began her Philip Morris career as a secretary and advanced to positions of increasing responsibilities. Deneen worked full-time and attended classes at night for 11 years to earn her B.A. in Managerial Marketing from Pace University, New York City. Deneen served on the Board of Trustees with The Opportunity Charter School in Harlem, New York. She appeared in educational videos for children, worked as a runway fashion model, and auditioned for television commercials. Her interests include ancient history, pistol target shooting, photography, and volunteering at her church. Deneen currently resides in Connecticut with her husband Tom.

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