A fan-made video shared by US President Donald Trump has been taken down from Twitter, after Linkin Park objected to the fact the clip featured their classic hit ‘In The End’.
The video was uploaded on Saturday, July 18th, but was swiftly removed from the social media platform and replaced by a white box reading ‘This media has been disable in response to a report by the copyright owner’.
Trump has since removed the tweet, but not before some a few Twitter sleuths got some screenshots and reposted them.
Linkin Park – 1
Donald Trump – 0 pic.twitter.com/8rJKmQ500P
— SFDB (@sfdb) July 19, 2020
Blabbermouth reports that the clip went for two minutes, and included a bunch of quotes from Trump’s inaugural address, including his view to begin “transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.”
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The clip also presented Democratic candidate Joe Biden as a member of the Washington elite.
It has since emerged that Linkin Park issued a cease and desist over the video, which Twitter acted upon in quick time to get it taken down.
In a statement, the band said “Linkin Park did not and does not endorse Trump, nor authorize his organization to use any of our music. A cease and desist has been issued.”
Linkin Park did not and does not endorse Trump, nor authorize his organization to use any of our music. A cease and desist has been issued.
— LINKIN PARK (@linkinpark) July 19, 2020
Linkin Park’s late singer Chester Bennington was famously anti-Trump, once calling the President “a greater threat to the USA than terrorism.”
The official video clip for ‘In The End’ recently celebrated a milestone, tracking one billion views on YouTube.
Speaking about the story behind the classic track, Mike Shinoda revealed it came to him while rehearsing in a dingy room in the “grossest part of Hollywood.
“And that was the place where we found a rehearsal room that we could afford. And we were writing it there. And we were working on our show and our songs there,” said Shinoda.
“And I decided to stay overnight in that building, and I wrote ‘In The End’. And I think Rob Bourdon was the first one to show up the next day for rehearsal, and I played it for him, and he was freaking out.
“There’s a weird battle with hopelessness and the ephemeral nature of time and our lives that the song is really about.”
Check out ‘In The End’ by Linkin Park:
