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The Mary Trump Podcast

Artists Slam Trump’s Illegal Use of Music

The Mary Trump Podcast

Mary Trump Media

Politics, President, Donald Trump, News, Political Commentary, Mary Trump, Democrat, Government

4.9846 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump keeps using artists’ songs without permission, and being ordered to stop. From Bruce Springsteen to Sinead O’Connor, musicians and estates are slamming his misuse and misinterpretations of their work.

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0:00.0

Donald is a criminal. Yes, I know. That's hardly news. But weirdly, one of his repeated offenses

0:07.7

is stealing artist's music without compensating them or getting their permission to use it in the

0:13.8

first place. From country to rock to classical, the list of musicians he's ripped off is large

0:20.4

and growing. As Politico reported, the Trump

0:23.5

regime's recent unauthorized use of a Sabrina Carpenter song has put this issue back in the

0:28.5

spotlight. In many cases, artists called Donald out for not only using their work without permission,

0:35.1

but entirely missing the message of the song

0:39.1

he's stealing. Bruce Springsteen has repeatedly objected to Donald's playing board of the USA

0:44.6

at his events, partly because the song is often misinterpreted as patriotic, as it was by

0:50.4

Ronald Reagan, even though it's actually a critique of the Vietnam War.

0:57.2

Springsteen's objects also partly because he can't stand Donald,

1:02.7

something he made very clear on his tour over the summer.

1:07.3

Watch this.

1:08.6

There's some very, weary, strange, and dangerous...

1:15.6

In America, they are persecuting people

1:25.6

for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent.

1:32.3

This is happening now.

1:37.3

In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death.

1:53.0

This is happening now.

1:57.0

And my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on Royal American

2:04.3

workers.

2:05.3

They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just, the plural

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