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Kenny Loggins shuts down Donald Trump’s use of ‘Danger Zone’ in controversial AI ‘dumping’ video: “Too many people are trying to divide us”
NME ^ | 10/21/25 | Liberty Dunworth

Posted on 10/21/2025 5:49:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Kenny Loggins has hit out at Donald Trump for using his song ‘Danger Zone’ in a controversial video regarding US protests.

The classic ‘80s song was heard playing in a video shared by the US president on his Truth Social account over the weekend. In the clip, a version of Trump made using artificial intelligence was seen wearing a crown and flying in a jet labelled ‘King Trump’. While in the jet, he is seen dumping sludge onto a crowd of people protesting in the streets.

Now, Loggins has criticised the president for using the song without asking for permission, and expressed his frustration at being tied into an online post that is made with the “purpose of dividing us”.

(Excerpt) Read more at nme.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: fkl; kennyloggins; music; tds; trump
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Kenny you are getting a royalty for the song.
1 posted on 10/21/2025 5:49:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

He is just another has-been Leftist.


2 posted on 10/21/2025 5:51:23 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: DallasBiff

3 posted on 10/21/2025 5:53:18 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: DallasBiff

So isn’t the song “public domain”? Loggins can whine about Trump using it, but I don’t believe he can “shut it down” as the headline states.


4 posted on 10/21/2025 5:57:38 AM PDT by Joann37 (This )
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To: larrytown

The song is public domain.


5 posted on 10/21/2025 5:59:30 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: DallasBiff

“Kenny you are getting a royalty for the song.”

There are Trump-loving musicians. Most would be happy to deposit a royalty check.


6 posted on 10/21/2025 6:00:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: DallasBiff

First of all, President Trump didn’t create the video. All he did was share it.


7 posted on 10/21/2025 6:01:30 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: DallasBiff

Satire is a legally protected right in the Constitution.


8 posted on 10/21/2025 6:01:34 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Socialism's promises, like a Djinn's wishes to the greedy, lead to punishment when due. )
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To: DallasBiff

Not Trump’s finest moment — better to dump the truth on t
those protesters.


9 posted on 10/21/2025 6:02:05 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s Tom Holman and the Deporters!

We’re going to send you back
Enthusiasm we don’t not lack
Every invader back to his or her country
Let America again be free
Restore our country back to the way it used to be
even if we have to water the Tree of Liberty.


10 posted on 10/21/2025 6:04:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Col Frank Slade

11 posted on 10/21/2025 6:05:03 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: DallasBiff

He can’t “shut down” anything.

Not his song and not Trump’s meme.


12 posted on 10/21/2025 6:06:09 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Socon-Econ

Are you off the fainting couch as yet?


13 posted on 10/21/2025 6:07:25 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: DallasBiff

Giorgio Moroder was the composer for this song, as well as Take My Breath Away. *Anyone* could have sung these songs. Odds are Kenny and Berlin were just available, cheap.


14 posted on 10/21/2025 6:07:36 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: DallasBiff

For anyone else curious about the source of this swill...

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2023/07/nme-print-magazine-return


15 posted on 10/21/2025 6:09:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: DallasBiff

We’ve had more than enough of Karl Marx
Let’s feed the bodies of drug smugglers to the sharks.


16 posted on 10/21/2025 6:09:37 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: DallasBiff

A leftist bemoaning the fact that we’re ‘divided’?
That’s like a turd complaining about flies.


17 posted on 10/21/2025 6:10:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DallasBiff

Only, WRONG …

WHO? In the 1980s there was a songwriter named Kenny Loggins who wrote and performed three songs of note including I’m Alright (1980) from Caddyshack, Footloose (1984) from Footloose, and Danger Zone (1986) from Top Gun. After he demanded Trump remove his song from an AI meme the the president shared Americans were shocked to learn that Kenny was still alive. He sold his music catalog long ago and was assumed to have passed away.

pic.twitter.com/zwA7th2hus— @amuse (@amuse) October 20, 2025


18 posted on 10/21/2025 6:11:21 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: DallasBiff

Must be the same video that dumped huge turds on Harry Sisson from a fighter jet, personally I’d choose a 747 freighter.


19 posted on 10/21/2025 6:12:22 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: DallasBiff

Kenny needs to drop the politics and sing.


20 posted on 10/21/2025 6:17:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Beware the far-left "No Kings" backshooting DemonRAT Luigis. )
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