Upload the Foo Warring parties to the rising listing of musicians ticked off by way of the presidential marketing campaign for GOP nominee Donald Trump. As broadly anticipated, on Friday the previous president used to be joined onstage by way of erstwhile impartial candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a part of their now-shared marketing campaign’s plan to stymie Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s White Space aspirations. Much less predicted used to be the Trump marketing campaign’s resolution to introduce the alleged sexual assailant (oh, sorry, I must specify—I’m speaking about RFK, Jr.) with the track “My Hero,” the Foo Warring parties’s track celebrating essentially the most unusual amongst us.

On the Friday match in Arizona, Kennedy showed that he would endorse Trump as he suspended—however now not didn’t finish—his marketing campaign and steered, the Related Press studies, that “Trump presented him a task if he returns to the White Space.” The scion hasn’t misplaced hope that he may nonetheless win the presidency, telling the Washington Put up that if “neither of the applicants wins 270 electoral votes, which is rather conceivable—if truth be told, these days our polling displays them tying at 269-269—I may conceivably nonetheless finally end up within the White Space in a contingent election.” So far, any information of a reciprocal task be offering from a potential President Kennedy to Trump has now not been reported.

As Kennedy took the level Friday to formally seal the maintain rally-holder Trump, the loudspeakers performed the Foo Warring parties’s 1998 track. Used to be the aim to keep in touch that RFK used to be Trump’s hero, or vice versa? No person is aware of, however we do know that the Foo Warring parties weren’t satisfied about it.

By the use of X (previously Twitter), the Foo Warring parties posted a screenshot of an trade between its account and that of every other consumer, during which the Dave Grohl-fronted band showed that the Trump marketing campaign didn’t have permission to make use of their track for marketing campaign functions.

In a remark reported on by way of Leisure Weekly and others, the band showed by means of a spokesperson that they “weren’t requested permission, and in the event that they had been, they shouldn’t have granted it.” Any royalties generated by way of Trump’s use of the track can be donated to the Harris-Tim Walz marketing campaign, the spokesperson mentioned.

The Foo Warring parties aren’t the primary artists to distance themselves from the Trump marketing campaign, neither is this the primary time they’ve drubbed a marketing campaign for his or her use of this actual track. Two weeks in the past, Celine Dion referred to as the previous president out for his use of the Titanic theme track “My Center Will Move On,” announcing then that she “does now not endorse this or any identical use.”

And previous this week, Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung used Beyonce’s track “Freedom”—an anthem broadly understood to be accredited to be used by way of the Harris marketing campaign—as a soundtrack to pictures of the previous president. After Beyonce’s camp reportedly threatened felony motion, the video used to be deleted. In line with USA TODAY, different artists who say Trump has co-opted their paintings come with the Village Folks (Trump incessantly makes use of their 1978 hit “YMCA”) and the property of Isaac Hayes, which has demanded $3 million in royalties for the unauthorized use of Hayes-penned Sam & Dave vintage, “Hang On, I’m Comin.”

In the meantime, in 2008, the Foo Warring parties controlled a identical factor with track use—this time, all through then-Republican senator John McCain’s failed bid for US president. After McCain’s marketing campaign made “My Hero” its theme track, the band answered, “It’s irritating and infuriating that any person who claims to talk for the American other folks would many times display such little admire for creativity and highbrow belongings.”

“The saddest factor about that is that ‘My Hero’ used to be written as a birthday party of the typical guy and his unusual attainable,” the Foo Warring parties persisted on the time. “To have it appropriated with out our wisdom and utilized in a fashion that perverts the unique sentiment of the lyric simply tarnishes the track.”