The ever controversial Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has ignored a ban on playing The Rolling Stones music at his speeches and continues to blast “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” at the end of each.
This past May, the band released a statement saying that they hadn’t granted Trump permission to use the song for his campaign and said, “We have requested Trump cease all use immediately,” according to NME.
Trump then turned around and directly disobeyed the request, using the song at the end of a speech spanning 75-minutes at the end of the Republican National Convention on July 22.
The Republican candidate disregard many orders, as this is the second time in two days that he has used songs he has been instructed to avoid, playing “We Are The Champions” by Queen at the end of the convention on July 20. Brian May had told him not to use the song in his campaign this past June.
Trump has been a friend to the Stones in the past and did sponsor a show on their tour for the Steel Wheels album, which took place at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk arena. But the band did put down conditions that Trump was, under no circumstances, to flaunt his involvement in the press aside from having his name on it.
The Stones then arrived at the venue to Trump conducting a press conference and following this discovery, the tour manager Michael Cohl asked him to stop. Keith Richards then reportedly tossed a knife down onto the table as a veiled threat.
Tour manager Cohl told Pollstar that Richards said, “What the hell do I have you for? Do I have to go over there and fire him myself? One of us is leaving the building, either him or us.”
Cohl then said that Trump exited, and as he was walking out, one of his security guards put on brass knuckles, as the Stones’ crew prepared hockey sticks, tire irons and screwdrivers to retaliate.
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