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In response to a lawsuit from the late artist’s estate, Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a temporary injunction blocking further use of the song “without proper license.” Trump used Hayes’s “Hold On, I’m Comin’” as his exit music at many campaign events this year, including at the“We are very pleased with the court’s decision,” said James Walker Jr., a lawyer for the Hayes estate.
Thrash, however, did not grant the estate’s request that the Trump campaign take down recordings of past events in which the song was used. Ronald Coleman, a lawyer for the former president, said after the ruling that the campaign “had already agreed to cease further use” of the song and that it was “very gratified that the court recognized the First Amendment issues at stake and didn’t order a takedown of existing videos.”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,’” O’Connor’s estate said when it requested that Trump stop playing her music.
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