Beyoncé Becomes Latest Star Upset With Trump For Using Her Song: Report

Beyoncé has reportedly become the latest star upset with former President Donald Trump for using her song as part of his presidential campaign.

The 42-year-old singer’s record label and publisher issued a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign after it used her song “Freedom” in a social media video featuring Trump, Billboard magazine reported.

In a video posted on X, Trump’s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung shared a clip with the song being played as images showed Trump stepping off a plane.

Shortly after news broke about the singer’s label threatening to block the use of the song by the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign, the video was deleted, The Guardian noted.

It comes after Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign had started using the song at campaign events and even unveiled a new a cappella version in an ad played at the DNC, the outlet noted. The singer reportedly gave Harris permission to use the song during her campaign.

Per CNN, a source close to Harris revealed that the team asked to use the song from the 2016 album “Lemonade.”

Beyonće has sent the Donald Trump campaign a cease-and-desist letter over the use of her song ‘Freedom’—which has become Kamala Harris’ unofficial campaign song—in a video on social media.

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The “Single Ladies” hitmaker is only the latest celebrity performer to get mad that Trump used their song during his campaign. On August 11, the family of late singer/songwriter Isaac Hayes sued the Trump campaign for what it said was the unauthorized use of one of Hayes’ songs at presidential “campaign rallies from 2022-2024,” as previously reported.

Hayes’ family is demanding “not less than” a “$3 million payment” in licensing fees from Trump and his campaign for using the song the late singer co-wrote with David Portner in 1966 for Sam & Dave, called “Hold on, I’m Coming,” at his rallies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Earlier this month, Celine Dion’s management team on behalf of Dion and her record label released a statement about how her song, “My Heart Will Go On,” from the “Titanic” soundtrack, was played at the Trump-JD Vance rally in Bozeman, as previously reported.

“Today, Celine Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, musical performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ at a Donald Trump / JD Vance campaign rally in Montana,” the statement read.  

“In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,” the statement added. “…And really, THAT song?”

Other artists who have gotten upset at Trump using their songs include the Rolling Stones, Rihanna, and Axl Rose, The Hollywood Reporter noted.

Related: Beyoncé Gives Kamala Harris Permission To Use Song ‘Freedom’ For Campaign: Report

Pelosi Compares Dems’ Election Against Trump To America’s War For Independence

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told MSNBC on Thursday that the Democrats’ election battle against Donald Trump in November is comparable to the U.S. warring with England for its independence.

Pelosi was interviewed by MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell as the Democratic National Convention begins its fourth and final day in Chicago. Many of the DNC speakers have focused on attacking Trump as a “threat to democracy,” and Pelosi repeated that rhetoric during her Thursday morning interview.

“We have to defeat a person who is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen,” Pelosi said. “At the beginning of our country, Thomas Paine said ‘The times have found us — declare war, establish a new nation.’ Abraham Lincoln took up that charge to keep our country together years later, decades later.”

“And now the times have found us to save our democracy,” she added. “That is what we are here to do.”

The Trump campaign responded to Pelosi’s comments, calling them “unhinged.”

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“Democrats are now outright alluding to political violence if President Trump wins,” the Trump campaign wrote on X.

UNHINGED: Crazy Nancy compares defeating President Trump to America going to war against the British and Confederacy.

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Pelosi quoted Thomas Paine’s line, “The times have found us,” in reference to Trump five years ago. In 2019, Pelosi shared a photo of herself standing up and pointing at Trump during a White House meeting between Democratic leadership and the Trump administration.

“In the darkest hours of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: ‘The times have found us.’ The times have found us today to fight for our democracy,” Pelosi said at the time. “We owe it to our children; we owe it to the generations of Americans who have fought and died to defend this country.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept her party’s nomination and address Democrats Thursday night to wrap up the convention. Pelosi reportedly played a crucial role in pushing for President Joe Biden to end his 2024 campaign and usher in Harris as the new nominee.

“Sometimes you have to take a punch for the children. I did what I had to do,” she said earlier this week when asked about Biden’s exit from the race and her relationship with him. “My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign.”