Guitar legend Johnny Marr has slammed Donald Trump after the previous US president was heard taking part in The Smiths at one among his political rallies.
On Tuesday night, the musician responded to a video on X (previously Twitter) depicting a Trump rally in South Dakota final 12 months, the place The Smiths’ Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Need could possibly be heard taking part in.
“You really hear The Smiths extra usually than you’d assume at 2024 Trump rallies,” the submit claimed.
Johnny then responded: “Ahh…proper…OK. I by no means in one million years would’ve thought this might come to go. Contemplate this shit shut proper down proper now.”
This isn’t the primary time Johnny has spoken out towards right-wing politicians who’ve endorsed The Smiths’ music.
Again in 2010, David Cameron (then nonetheless chief of the Conservative occasion) made an look on Desert Island Discs, throughout which he chosen The Smiths’ This Charming Man as one among his chosen songs.
“David Cameron, cease saying that you just like The Smiths,” Johnny responded publicly. “No you don’t. I forbid you to love it.”
He later claimed in his autobiography that The Smiths “had been towards the whole lot he and the Conservative occasion stood for”.
Johnny joins an ever-growing checklist of artists who’ve opposed Trump utilizing their music at his political occasions.
In 2020, the Rolling Stones threatened to sue Trump for enjoying their songs at his election rallies regardless of cease-and-desist directives.
Linkin Park additionally despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Trump, after he reposed a campaign-style video that includes the group’s monitor In The Finish that very same 12 months.
In 2019, Sharon Osbourne blasted the then-president for utilizing the Black Sabbath monitor Loopy Practice in a marketing campaign video, and made it clear that Trump was “forbidden” from utilizing her husband Ozzy’s music in future movies or at his rallies.
A 12 months earlier, Rihanna issued a sometimes withering response after studying that her music Don’t Cease The Music was being performed at pro-Trump political occasions, famously writing on social media: “Not for for much longer… me nor my folks would ever be at or round a type of tragic rallies, so thanks for the heads up!”