White Stripes Singer Condemns Trump Over Veterans, Threatens Lawsuit for Song Use

White Stripes singer Jack White vowed to sue former President Donald Trump on social media after the GOP nominee’s deputy communications director used his signature song in a video online Thursday.

Margo Martin took to her X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday to chronicle her boss’s trips to Michigan and Wisconsin. In a short clip she shared with her followers, she used 2003’s “Seven Nation Army” set to a clip of Trump boarding his airplane.

Martin’s post disappeared after she posted it – perhaps over White’s reaction to it on Instagram. White wrote:

Oh….Don’t even think about using my music you fascists. Law suit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others.) Have a great day at work today Margo Martin. And as long as I’m here, a double fuck you DonOLD for insulting our nation’s veterans at Arlington you scum. You should lose every military family’s vote immediately from that if ANYTHING makes sense anymore.

Trump – who has faced mounting pushback from musicians over the use of their songs at his events – has taken flak all week since visiting Arlington National Cemetery where he and his campaign posed for photos with families of service members killed three years ago during the Pentagon’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and attended a wreath-laying ceremony. Trump’s campaign later posted images from his visit to the cemetery, in which partisan activities are strictly banned by federal law.

During the visit, a cemetery official asked Trump’s team not to take photos and later accused Trump staffers of being crude and even pushing them. The Associated Press reported:

[An anonymous Pentagon official] told the AP that the Trump campaign was warned about not taking photographs in Section 60 before their arrival and the altercation. Trump was at Arlington on Monday at the invitation of some of the families of the 13 service members who were killed in the Kabul airport bombing exactly three years prior.

Officials at the cemetery said Wednesday, “We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”

Asked by NBC News’s Dasha Burns Thursday about the controversy, Trump shirked responsibility for his campaign filming at the cemetery and posting the images on TikTok.

“I don’t know what the rules and regulations are. I don’t know who did it. And it could have been them. It could have been the [Gold Star parents]. It could have been somebody else,” Trump said.

In their Wednesday statement on the matter, the officials at Arlington said, “Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign.”