Donald Trump Plays GNR, Sinead O'Connor, Village People Songs During Bizarre Town Hall After Repeatedly Being Asked Not To

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : They joined a long list of acts who've made similar requests since Trump first ran for the nation's highest office in 2016, a roster that includes: Adele, Panic!
65% : According to video of the evening, Trump played Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," as well as Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U," Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond," Guns N' Roses' "November Rain," James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," Elvis' "An American Trilogy," the Village People's "YMCA" and Andrea Bocelli's "Time to Say Goodbye.
53% : "In a statement issued Tuesday morning (Oct. 15), Harris supporter Wainwright lambasted Trump for playing the singer's version of Cohen's beloved 1984 hymn to the universal struggle of love and heartbreak.
45% : So, after making a joke about people passing out, Trump dispensed with questions and kicked off a bizarre 30-plus minute playlist song and dance during which he cued up a number of well-known tracks by artists who have explicitly, and repeatedly, asked him to cease and desist from playing their music at his rallies.
43% : GNR and O'Connor's reps have pointedly asked Trump not to play their music during his campaign stops, with the Village People threatening to sue the former reality TV star last year over what they said was a lookalike band playing their hits at his Mar-a-Lago Florida private club after years of asking him to remove their 1978 queer disco classic from his queue.
39% : After a second person fainted and was attended to, Trump asked for the doors to be opened to let some fresh air in, before being told that was not possible for security reasons.
38% : Trump has mostly ignored those pleas, even in the face of a lawsuit from the estate of Hayes, though according to previous Billboard reporting there is a long tradition of campaigns hijacking artist's songs for their own political ends with little blowback.
34% : "Witnessing Trump and his supporters commune with this music last night was the height of blasphemy.
32% : Half an hour in, an attendee was stretchered out of the venue, which reportedly prompted Trump to ask the sound person to fire up Schubert's operatic "Ave Maria."

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