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Add the Foo Fighters to the growing list of musicians<\/a> ticked off by the presidential campaign for GOP nominee Donald Trump<\/strong>. As widely expected<\/a>, on Friday the former president was joined onstage by erstwhile independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong>, part of their now-shared campaign\u2019s plan to stymie Democratic nominee Kamala Harris\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> White House aspirations. Less predicted was the Trump campaign\u2019s decision to introduce the alleged sexual assailant (oh, sorry, I should specify<\/a>\u2014I\u2019m talking about RFK, Jr.<\/a>) with the song \u201cMy Hero,\u201d the Foo Fighters\u2019s song celebrating the most ordinary among us.<\/p>\n At the Friday event in Arizona, Kennedy confirmed that he would endorse Trump as he suspended\u2014but not did not end\u2014his campaign and suggested, the Associated Press reports<\/a>, that \u201cTrump offered him a job if he returns to the White House.\u201d The scion hasn\u2019t lost hope that he could still win the presidency, telling the Washington Post<\/em> that<\/a> if \u201cneither of the candidates wins 270 electoral votes, which is quite possible\u2014in fact, today our polling shows them tying at 269-269\u2014I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.\u201d Thus far, any news of a reciprocal job offer from a prospective President Kennedy to Trump has not been reported.<\/p>\n As Kennedy took the stage Friday to officially seal the deal with rally-holder Trump, the loudspeakers played the Foo Fighters\u2019s 1998 song. Was the intention to communicate that RFK was Trump\u2019s hero, or vice versa? No one knows, but we do know that the Foo Fighters were not happy about it.<\/p>\n Via X<\/a> (formerly Twitter), the Foo Fighters posted a screenshot of an exchange between its account and that of another user, in which the Dave Grohl<\/strong>-fronted band confirmed that the Trump campaign did not have permission to use their song for campaign purposes.<\/p>\n In a statement reported on by Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a> and others, the band confirmed via a spokesperson that they \u201cwere not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it.\u201d Any royalties generated by Trump\u2019s use of the song will be donated to the Harris-Tim Walz<\/strong> campaign, the spokesperson said<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Foo Fighters aren\u2019t the first artists to distance themselves from the Trump campaign, nor is this the first time they\u2019ve drubbed a campaign for their use of this particular song. Two weeks ago, Celine Dion<\/strong> called the former president out for his use of the Titanic<\/em> theme song \u201cMy Heart Will Go On,\u201d saying then that<\/a> she \u201cdoes not endorse this or any similar use.\u201d<\/p>\n And earlier this week, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung<\/strong> used Beyonce\u2019s<\/strong> song \u201cFreedom\u201d\u2014an anthem widely understood to be permitted for use<\/a> by the Harris campaign\u2014as a soundtrack to footage<\/a> of the former president. After Beyonce\u2019s camp reportedly threatened<\/a> legal action, the video was deleted. According to USA TODAY<\/em><\/a>, other artists who say Trump has co-opted their work include the Village People (Trump frequently uses their 1978 hit \u201cYMCA\u201d) and the estate of Isaac Hayes, which has demanded $3 million in royalties for the unauthorized use of Hayes-penned Sam & Dave classic, \u201cHold On, I\u2019m Comin.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in 2008, the Foo Fighters managed a similar issue with song use\u2014this time, during then-Republican senator John McCain\u2019s failed bid for US president. After McCain\u2019s campaign made \u201cMy Hero\u201d its theme song, the band responded,<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe saddest thing about this is that \u2018My Hero\u2019 was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential,\u201d the Foo Fighters continued at the time. \u201cTo have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n