Tom Petty’s relatives launched a joint assertion this day denouncing the utilization of Petty’s song, “I Obtained’t Wait on Down,” at Donald Trump’s advertising and marketing campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The legendary singer-songwriter, who died in 2017, “wrote this song for the underdog, for the general man and for all people,” Petty’s relatives acknowledged. They persevered, “We’re attempting to possess it sure that we imagine everybody looks to be free to vote as they like, think as they like, however the Petty family doesn’t stand for this. We imagine in The United States and we imagine in democracy. But Donald Trump is no longer representing the noble ideals of either. We would despise for followers that are marginalized by this administration to think we were complicit in this utilization. Concurrently, now we salvage issued a stop and desist discover to the Trump advertising and marketing campaign.” Trump has a lengthy and diverse historical previous of musicians, including Neil Young, Adele, and Elton John, rejecting the utilization of their songs at his advertising and marketing campaign events. Trump’s advertising and marketing campaign has no longer but responded to the Petty family’s assertion.

Tom Petty’s Family Disorders Cease and Desist to Trump Campaign