Sinéad O’Connor’s estate joins list of artists to hit Donald Trump with a cease and desist

There are various, sundry ways that former President Donald Trump has demonstrated his utter shamelessness. One example from the pop culture corner is how he’s perfectly willing to appropriate the music of artists who hate his guts at his fascist little rallies. This example is a large umbrella under which more than a dozen musicians fall, most recently the late Sinéad O’Connor. Apparently Trump has been using her cover “Nothing Compares 2 U” at his campaign events (which is a weird choice for a political rally, except that it would be kind of ego-flattering?), and given O’Connor’s entire deal, her estate is obviously not going to let the affront stand.

“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness, and decency towards her fellow human beings,” reads a joint statement from O’Connor’s estate and her record label Chrysalis Records (via The Guardian). “It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies. It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil’. As the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from using her music immediately.”

Besides being opposed politically to Donald Trump in basically every way while she was alive, O’Connor did speak out against him on multiple occasions. Elaborating on calling him the “biblical devil” to Hot Press, she told the outlet, “I know this may sound extreme—I don’t really give a flying fuck what everyone else thinks—but I am convinced the man is actually a Satanist. I’m convinced of it. Klansmen were Satanists, it’s a satanic organization. Whatever form it may exist in now, I don’t know and I don’t want to know, but its origins were satanic. All its rituals, everything about it. These people do exist. They’re butchers, bakers, candlestick makers. So why not the President of the United States of America?” Per The Sun, in 2020, she tweeted that she hoped the coronavirus “takes him.”

At this point, the list of artists who have told Trump to stop using their songs is so illustrious that there’s a whole-ass Wikipedia page dedicated to the subject, so O’Connor is in good company. Here’s the full list so far, if you want to take a trip down memory lane…

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