Foo Fighters Say They Gave Trump Campaign Firm ‘No’ On Playing “My Hero” to Introduce RFK Jr: ‘Let Us Be Clear’
The Foo Fighters want it to be known that they didn’t give Donald Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. permission to play their music.
On Friday (August 23), the band’s 1997 single “My Hero” was used at a Trump event in Glendale, Arizona, when RFK Jr. was introduced to the stage. After suspending his presidential campaign, RFK Jr. has since endorsed Trump.
But a rep for the Foo Fighters would soon clarify to Billboard in a statement that neither Trump nor RFK Jr. have their backing.
“Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it,” the rep stated. Moreover, “appropriate actions are being taken,” with royalties received from the song’s play on Friday being donated to the Harris/Walz campaign.
But the rock legends went one step further, going to X on Saturday, screenshotting a post of themselves responding to a page asking about the incident.
“Let us be clear,” the caption read.
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Throughout the last decade, Trump hasn’t exactly been a fan-favorite of musicians, some who’ve threatened lawsuits and issued cease-and-desists for the unauthorized usage of their songs at events. More recently, Beyoncé warned Trump’s team to take down a since-deleted Trump campaign TikTok that played her 2016 song “Freedom.” Instead, the 32-time Grammy winner granted the song’s authorization to Vice President and presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
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