is a great person I've known him for so long for the past 16 months Robert F Kennedy [Applause] [Music] Jr the Foo Fighters are not fooling around after former president Donald Trump used the band's hit song My Hero at a recent rally to welcome Robert F Kennedy Jr a spokesperson for the band reportedly claimed Trump did not obtain permission to use [Music] it Foo Fighters were not asked permission and if they were they would have not granted it the representative said in a statement to people and confirmed to the outlet that the band will donate the royalties of the song to vice president KLA Harris's presidential campaign the Foo Fighters official X account also responded to a clip from the rally when a user on the social media platform asked hey at Fu Fighters did you let Trump use my hero to welcome RFK Jr on stage with them replying no the band then doubled down on their claim in another post which has over 11 million views where they attached The Exchange and wrote let us be clear however the former president's campaign is disputing the claim that they did not have permission Trump spokesperson stepen Chung claimed to news outlets that they have a license to play the song and took to X to write it's Times Like These fact matter don't be a pretender at Foo Fighters attaching a screenshot from the Independent who wrote in an article about the controversy quote the independent has seen documents appearing to confirm that the campaign has indeed licensed the song from bmi's song view service the situation follows a similar one from last week when Chung had used Freedom by Beyonce which has become a song associated with KLA Harris's campaign in a now deleted video of the former president as he touched down in Michigan the global po Star had threatened a cease and assist claiming she did not give the campaign permission to use it according to a rolling stone report and prior to that Seline Deon also objected to the use of her hit song My Heart Will Go On from the Titanic after the campaign played at a rally writing in part in a statement in no way is this use authorized and Seline Deon does not endorse this or any similar use and really that song a [Music]