Legendary singer-songwriter, and Santa Barbara resident, Kenny Loggins is asking President Donald Trump to stop using his music in a controversial video posted on social media.
On Saturday evening, Trump posted a fake A.I. generated video to his Truth Social account depicting the president wearing a king’s crown in a fighter jet labeled “King Trump.” The plane is then seen flying over protestors in an American city and dumping a brown liquid which is likely meant to represent fecal matter on the crowd that’s carrying American flags and signs.
The music playing over the video is Loggins’ 1986 hit from the movie Top Gun, “Danger Zone.”
The video is widely speculated to be Trump’s response to the massive “No Kings” rallies that took place throughout the United States, including Santa Barbara and the Central Coast, earlier on Saturday.
Loggins released a statement Monday morning stating Trump’s video is an unauthorized use “Danger Zone” and nobody asked for Loggins’ permission, which he said he would have denied. He is requesting that the recording on this video is removed immediately.
“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. 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. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us,” Loggins stated.
National Public Radio (NPR) first reported the story and stated that it reached out to the White House for a response and White House spokesperson Davis R. Ingle replied with image from the movie “Top Gun” captioned: “I FEEL THE NEED FOR SPEED.”
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Trump sh*tting all over American citizens doing probably one of the most American things one can do – openly and freely protest.
If you’re cool with this, turn in your passport.
Donald the grifter has been stealing his whole life. Now he and his family iare robbing the American people blind.
Trump has been an incorrigible and serial abuser of our legal system. His answer to all his self-inflicted problems is to go to court and waste other people’s money and time.
You’re being naive if you fail to recognize the lawfare that was used against Trump.
He did the things he did. It’s not that complicated bro
00PS – tell us a story about this “lawfare” of yours. What did Trump faces charges or liability for that he didn’t do?
You are ignoring obvious corroborated evidence in each and every one of his trials, none of which were political retribution despite his team’s completely erroneous claims that they were. In fact that was their only defense posture because in no case did they have evidence suggesting his innocence. So no I’m not naive, and I don’t really think you are, either. You are simply choosing to believe lies and ignore facts, which it’s totally your right to do, but that’s your loss.
Has been
You sure are, GIZ. Glad you finally accept that.
You don’t like that the guy doesn’t want his music to be used for douchebag propaganda so you call him a “has been”.
So what. He’s still right to speak up about a convicted felon stealing his music.
Pidgin from the giz, as always.
GIZZ – no you weren’t. You were outing yourself, whether your simple and very uneducated brain understood that or not. Maybe stop eating glue.
Loggins should have his attorney send our President a ten-billion dollar invoice for the unauthorized use of his artistic work.
Of course, Drumpf’s indictments of his enemies, and other theatrical stunts, are successful in pushing his association with sexual abuser/pedophile Epstein off the news-cycle, his true goal.
What I fail to understand, is how the Christian-right can support such an immoral criminal who is destroying our noble nation at the direction of Putin.
Trump had Mnuchin change the IRS regs so tax exempt churches, organizations etc could filter foreign moneys to him without detection.: https://pic.twitter.com/coXjf0RUJe
The Caddyshack theme song was fire.🔥
Without getting into any politics songs go through a process to be used by others they need to be licensed. In such a huge exposure permission must be obtained.
The song “Danger Zone,” sung by Kenny Loggins, was written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock.so Kenny cant do anything to MAGA. Sorry Kenny.
CITY2SB – that’s a neat lie. Where did you get your entertainment law degree?
City, it’s Loggins’ performance, so, you’re wrong.
This is exactly the type of distraction Trump uses to make people fall for “it” time and time again. A 40-year-old pop song used in a disgusting manner to divert attention to real problems. They used to say, “Don’t sweat the small stuff,” but now it’s the small stuff like using an old song in an AI-generated video that is driving people koo-koo-for-Coco-Puffs. Get a grip peeps.
BEES – what mouthwash to you use to get the taste of leather out of your mouth?
No one is going “koo-koo” over this, it’s just another on a exhaustive list of the childish and unlawful things your leader is doing. This could very well be grounds for a lawsuit that guess who (YOU and I) will be paying for.
Every instance of immorality, illegality, and overall examples of his lack of maturity and mental fitness for the most powerful jon on earth, must be categorized. One day, and my God I hope it’s soon, this pile of hate will be held accountable. We can’t just ignore it.
NO ONE is distracted from our mission.
They didn’t like my comment about Trump’s IQ.
I think it was just a formulation/sentence structure issue; or it’s probably because there was no need to bump that numeric value that high!
Thanks for clearing that up for everyone. We wouldn’t know how to think or live without your advice.
And Bees – regarding distractions, there is too much focus on the demolition of the White House and building the new ball room. The real story is what is under the east wing, where the ballroom will sit. The ball room itself is a distraction for upgrading the emergency operations bunker underneath (originally built by FDR). This is where Trump will recluse once he calls off the mid-term elections.
Also, release the Epstein files.
You voted for these shenanigans and you support them now. You are the perfect Project 2025 supporter.
I can’t even be friends with Trump supporters. Let alone have a dialogue with them. You can’t fix stupid.
Sacjon: Let’s agree that Mr. Loggins’ legal team should handle it and maybe get Kenny some dough. Then, instead of being distracted by a song, we can focus on say things like .
Bees – you are telling people not to go koko puffs or focus on this story, yet you have gone cocopuffs and are directing people how to feel about this story and using incomplete sentences. A normal reaction would be not to react at all, if YOU were truly interested in not inflating a story.
He doesn’t want money, BEES. He wants it removed. Good people don’t want their hard work, creativity, time and/or money associated with the slime ball you defend here 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Again, NO ONE is distracted.
Focus on what? Some other outrage we can’t do anything about? That’s the point. All we can do is memorialize each and every offense to law and human decency he carries out. Sadly, nothing will stop him or his vile supporters from doing these things.
Keep chewing that leather.
I’ve encountered Russian bots that could formulate sentences better and seem like a human was the author.
Trump’s IQ is said to be 73, there are a lot of people with borderline retardation, so it appears.