{"id":458494,"date":"2026-02-04T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458494\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:38:08","slug":"brian-may-and-furious-fans-react-to-trump-posting-queen-classic-without-permission-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458494\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May and furious fans react to Trump posting Queen classic \u2018without permission\u2019 | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Brian May<\/a> has reposted a video of a painting shared by President Donald Trump<\/a>. But it\u2019s not just any painting.<\/p>\n

The piece of art is of famous MAGA movement commentators and politicians playing in an orchestra conducted by the Commander-in-Chief himself.<\/p>\n

The sound on the video is blocked for copyright reasons, but the video originally featured Queen<\/a>‘s classic track Who Wants To Live Forever, which the guitar legend penned himself.<\/p>\n

Sir Brian, who recently ruled out a future Queen US tour anytime soon due to the country being \u201ctoo dangerous\u201d, has asked fans to weigh in on what they think of Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

Sir Brian captioned the post: \u201cWell, lots of people have sent me this clip , wondering what my reaction will be. It was recently posted using our music (without permission) on something called \u2018Truth Socials\u2019 by the current president of the United States of America. The music is Who Wants to Live Forever, and I have now realised that Instagram<\/a> is muting the sound on this post of mine in \u2018multiple regions\u2019. You will notice the painting depicts lots of today’s Republicans as musicians in a fictional orchestra. And Mr Trump as the conductor. Well, before we react, I’ll be fascinated to hear your reactions, folks. Do you find this … Inspiring ? Electrifying ? Appealing ? Appalling ? Laughable ? Beautiful ? Pathetic ? Desperate ? Loveable ? Despicable ? Patriotic ? Narcissistic ? Artistic ? Inappropriate ? Or not worthy of comment. Do you think we, Queen, should object ? Or applaud ? Feel angry ? Or grateful, honoured ? Or just smile benignly ? Well, my comments page is yours !!! Try to keep it clean ! Cheers – Bri.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans didn\u2019t mince their words in the comments, with the most liked ones slamming Trump. One read: \u201cFreddie, Queen, and his legacy doesn\u2019t match with MAGA.\u201d Another said: \u201cIt’s sickening on every level. And using your song is blasphemy.\u201d A third said: \u201cHow dreadful. It feels as though Queen’s beautiful music has been sullied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Brian May has reposted a video of a painting shared by President Donald Trump. But it\u2019s not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,67631,2490,134,136,87350,235918,235919],"class_list":["post-458494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brian-may","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-queen","tag-queen-and-adam-lambert","tag-who-wants-to-live-forever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}