Sinead O'Connor's the estate requires that former president Donald Trump stops playing the late singer's music during his political rallies.
“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,” the deceased's estate said singer and Chrysalis Records in a joint statement to Associated Press. “So it was with outrage that we learned that Donald Trump was using his iconic performance of 'Nothing compares to 2 U” during his political meetings.
“It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to see her work misrepresented in this way by someone she herself called a 'biblical devil,'” the statement continued. “As stewards of his legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates immediately stop using his music.”
The Post has reached out to O'Connor's estate for comment.
Trump, 77 years oldreceived the cease and desist letter after the estate learned the former president had used the singer's 1990 hit at various rallies.
The former host of “The Apprentice,” who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, is currently running for re-election in the 2024 presidential race.
O'Connor, who died of natural causes in July 2023 at the age of 56, was a vocal critic of Trump.
“Actually, I believe Donald Trump is the biblical devil, the asshole,” O'Connor told Hot Press in 2020. “He doesn’t play. No one should think they are doing this just so they can get elected. He's evil enough to believe this stuff.
“They should have dragged him out of the White House the moment he separated their parents' first child at the Mexican border,” she continued. “They should remove him from the office in a non-violent manner. They should go to him – like they did Nixon – and say, “You're not cut out for the fucking office, get out.” »
“Pretend you've had a heart attack, a series of mini-strokes, whatever you want, but get the hell out! »
At one point, O'Connor even said she truly believed Trump was “a Satanist.”
“I know this may sound extreme – I really don't care what anyone thinks – but I am convinced that this man is in fact a Satanist,” she told the outlet.
THE Estate of the singer of “Drinking Before the War” has become the latest in a series of artists to issue cease and desist letters to the former president.
In 2018, Pharrell Williams kicked things off by asking Trump to stops playing his song “Happy”. Tom Petty's family too criticized the business tycoon for using “I will not back down” at a rally in 2020.
Johnny Marr, leader of the Smiths, also publicly condemned Trump on X (formerly Twitter) for using their 1984 hit, “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want,” for an event in South Dakota.
Other artists who have banned Trump from using their songs include Adele, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Neil Young, Rihanna and Ozzy Osbourne.
Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber sent Trump a cease and desist letter after continually performing “Memory” from his infamous musical “Cats.”