Kenny Loggins Objects to Trump’s Use of ‘Danger Zone’ in AI Video
Kenny Loggins is the latest in the long, long (long!) list of artists who have asked Trump to not use their music. On Saturday night, Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself apparently dumping feces out of a plane onto No Kings protesters. The video was set to Loggins’ “Danger Zone,” a move of which Loggins was not a fan. In a lengthy statement to NPR, Loggins wrote “This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately.”
Loggins’ objection was less the poop and more the political bullshit. “I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us,” he wrote. “Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us.”
The View’s Sunny Hostin called the video “unpresidential,” which seems an objective assessment of a video where Trump is literally wearing a crown. “What I was really struck by is how unpresidential he is,” she said on The View. “It’s not striking me now, but it was just striking to me that he is using profanity when he is speaking to the press corps and [posting] an AI video of feces on United States citizens.” When asked for comment by Entertainment Weekly, the White House sent a meme of a “crying liberal.”
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