Trump campaign rally plays the Smiths, Johnny Marr responds

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Ahead of the New Hampshire primary earlier this week, political reporter Ben Jacobs attended a rally for former President Donald Trump and noted in a posting on X that the Smiths had been added to the presumptive Republican nominee's pre-show playlist.

The following day, ABC's Soorin Kim noted that this wasn't a new development. "You actually hear the Smiths more often than you'd think at 2024 Trump rallies," she posted, along with a video of "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want," one of the Smiths's most beloved songs, being played at a Trump event in 2023.

Read Next: Andy Rourke, The Smiths’ bassist, has died Eventually, the video found its way to Johnny Marr, founding guitarist of the Smiths, and he promised to put a stop to his music being played at Trump's rallies. "Ahh…right…OK," he wrote on X, "I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass.