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It seems premature to characterize Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s presidential campaign<\/a> as a \u201csinking ship<\/a>.\u201d But as singer Celine Dion<\/strong> alluded Saturday, that\u2019s exactly what organizers of a rally for the former president just did, using a song that evoked comparisons to one of the most notable disasters of the modern era. Was it a misstep, a Freudian slip, or an admission that things haven\u2019t been going so great<\/a>? That\u2019s unclear, but what\u2019s crystal is that Dion doesn\u2019t want any part of it.<\/p>\n It all went down at Trump\u2019s Bozeman, Montana rally on Friday\u2014yes, the same rally that was directly preceded by the GOP frontrunner\u2019s threats to sue the New York Times<\/em><\/a> for their reporting that a near-death helicopter ride Trump claimed he took with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown<\/strong> never happened<\/a>. After Trump made the reportedly shout-filled threat, he headed to a rally at Montana State University\u2019s 8,455-seat Brick Breeden Field House.<\/p>\n According to the Daily Montanan<\/em><\/a>, Trump subjected those assembled at his first rally since Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris<\/strong> selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz<\/strong> as her running mate to \u201ca meandering speech that lasted more than an hour and a half.\u201d During that speech, per PolitiFact<\/a>, he presented his usual slate of misinformation and falsehoods, including incorrect claims about the inflation rate during his presidency and lies about Harris\u2019s stated positions on immigration and border control.<\/p>\n Racism<\/a> and xenophobia were also in ample supply<\/a>, with the former president proclaiming that after he is elected, expect \u201ca Trump mass deportation, because we have no choice. We have no choice. If Harris wins, a never-ending stream of illegal alien rapists.\u201d<\/p>\n But before Trump took the stage, the campaign took a less confident note. As widely shared on social media<\/a>, the gigantic video monitors at the event played Celine Dion<\/a> performing her iconic 1997 song, \u201cMy Heart Will Go On,\u201d which is internationally known as the theme song to James Cameron\u2019s epic disaster movie, Titanic<\/em>. That\u2019s right, they used the theme song from a movie about hubris, denial, and a high-profile catastrophe to entertain the rally crowd. You can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n When Dion caught wind of the use of her song and image Saturday, she issued a swift rebuke.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, Celine Dion\u2019s 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 \u201cMy Heart Will Go On\u201d at a Donald Trump \/ JD Vance<\/strong> campaign rally in Montana,\u201d the artist wrote in a statement posted to X (formerly Twitter) and elsewhere<\/a>. (We should note here that Vance was not in attendance at the Bozeman rally, nor did a discussion of his qualities appear prominently in the remarks made on stage.)<\/p>\n \u201cIn no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,\u201d Dion continued, before ending with the question that we\u2019re all sort of asking. \u201c\u2026And really, THAT song?\u201d<\/p>\n As of publication time, neither Trump nor his campaign have publicly responded to Dion and her diss heard \u2019round the world, nor have they explained why a song so closely linked to a movie about how callow rich people saved themselves while allowing the so-called common folks to die made sense for a political rally at which a self-described rich person dominated the spotlight. One can certainly guess how Trump is responding to this<\/a> in private, though.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n