Kenny Loggins slams Donald Trump for using “Danger Zone” in an AI video where Trump bombs No Kings protestors with feces: “I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately.”

“I can’t imag­ine why any­body would want their music used or asso­ci­at­ed with some­thing cre­at­ed with the sole pur­pose of divid­ing us. Too many peo­ple are try­ing to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come togeth­er. We’re all Amer­i­cans, and we’re all patri­ot­ic. There is no ‘us and them’ — that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this togeth­er, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of cel­e­brat­ing and unit­ing each and every one of us.”

🎸 “I can’t imag­ine why any­body would want their music used or asso­ci­at­ed with some­thing cre­at­ed with the sole pur­pose of divid­ing us.”

— Ken­ny Log­gins

A Polit­i­cal AI Video Sparks a Musi­cal Back­lash

Leg­endary musi­cian Ken­ny Log­gins, best known for his 1986 hit “Dan­ger Zone” from Top Gun, has pub­licly con­demned for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump after his clas­sic track was used in a shock­ing AI-gen­er­at­ed video that went viral over the week­end.

The video — post­ed on Trump’s social media plat­form — depicts a crown-wear­ing, jet-fly­ing ver­sion of Trump drop­ping brown sludge resem­bling feces onto crowds of No Kings pro­test­ers. The AI-gen­er­at­ed clip is wide­ly inter­pret­ed as a mock­ery of the mas­sive “No Kings” demon­stra­tions that took place nation­wide this week­end, where mil­lions ral­lied against author­i­tar­i­an­ism and polit­i­cal divi­sion.

At the cen­ter of the con­tro­ver­sy: the video’s sound­track. Trump’s AI clip blasts Loggins’s “Dan­ger Zone” as the air­craft swoops down — turn­ing an Amer­i­can rock anthem into a polit­i­cal weapon.

Ken­ny Log­gins Responds: “Remove My Record­ing Imme­di­ate­ly”

Log­gins wast­ed no time releas­ing a state­ment con­demn­ing the video and demand­ing that his per­for­mance be removed.

“This is an unau­tho­rized use of my per­for­mance of ‘Dan­ger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my per­mis­sion, which I would have denied, and I request that my record­ing on this video is removed imme­di­ate­ly,” the singer said in a state­ment to mul­ti­ple out­lets.

He con­tin­ued with a pow­er­ful mes­sage about uni­ty over divi­sion:

“I can’t imag­ine why any­body would want their music used or asso­ci­at­ed with some­thing cre­at­ed with the sole pur­pose of divid­ing us. Too many peo­ple are try­ing to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come togeth­er. We’re all Amer­i­cans, and we’re all patri­ot­ic. There is no ‘us and them’ — that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this togeth­er, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of cel­e­brat­ing and unit­ing each and every one of us.”

The “No Kings” Protests and the AI Video

The “No Kings” move­ment has become one of the largest protest cam­paigns of the year, with par­tic­i­pants call­ing for checks on con­cen­trat­ed polit­i­cal pow­er. The movement’s slo­gan — “No Kings in Amer­i­ca” — has res­onat­ed across cities and col­lege cam­pus­es.

Trump’s repost­ed video, accord­ing to reports from Axios and The Guardian, shows a sur­re­al, dig­i­tal­ly gen­er­at­ed world where “King Trump” flies a mil­i­tary jet labeled with his name, drop­ping sludge bombs on the demon­stra­tors below.

Crit­ics imme­di­ate­ly slammed the post as “vile,” “juve­nile,” and “deeply un-pres­i­den­tial,” while sup­port­ers defend­ed it as polit­i­cal satire.

Regard­less, Loggins’s reac­tion has added a seri­ous copy­right and eth­i­cal dimen­sion to what might oth­er­wise have been dis­missed as a meme.

Copy­right Meets Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence

Beyond the polit­i­cal storm lies a deep­er legal ques­tion: Who owns what in the age of AI-gen­er­at­ed con­tent?

“Dan­ger Zone” remains one of the most rec­og­niz­able songs in Amer­i­can pop cul­ture. Its use with­out per­mis­sion — espe­cial­ly in a polit­i­cal­ly charged, AI-craft­ed video — could raise seri­ous copy­right issues.

Legal experts told Bill­board and TMZ that even though par­o­dy and polit­i­cal com­men­tary enjoy some pro­tec­tion under U.S. law, using a full, copy­right­ed song in a mon­e­tized or par­ti­san con­text is risky. Log­gins is report­ed­ly explor­ing legal options to have the video tak­en down.

A Clash of Sym­bols

Few songs cap­ture Amer­i­can adren­a­line like “Dan­ger Zone.” Immor­tal­ized in Top Gun, it embod­ies flight, courage, and com­pe­ti­tion.

To pair that song with an image of a jet bomb­ing pro­test­ers with feces turns its mean­ing on its head — from bold free­dom to mock­ery and divi­sion.

That inver­sion, Log­gins said, was exact­ly what he found unac­cept­able:

“Music should unite us, not divide us.”

The Big­ger Pic­ture: AI, Pol­i­tics, and Cul­ture

This con­tro­ver­sy is the lat­est in a series of high-pro­file inci­dents where AI has blurred the lines between cre­ativ­i­ty, par­o­dy, and pro­pa­gan­da.

In recent months, sev­er­al pub­lic fig­ures have shared or cre­at­ed AI-gen­er­at­ed videos and songs fea­tur­ing real artists or celebri­ties with­out con­sent. Crit­ics warn that such prac­tices not only dis­re­spect cre­ators but can also spread mis­in­for­ma­tion or deep­en social divides.

The No Kings inci­dent is a per­fect storm of all three — tech­nol­o­gy, cul­ture, and pol­i­tics col­lid­ing in real time.

What Hap­pens Next?

Loggins’s team has request­ed that the video be removed from all plat­forms. Legal experts are watch­ing close­ly for poten­tial copy­right or defama­tion claims. AI reg­u­la­tion advo­cates say the con­tro­ver­sy under­scores the need for clear bound­aries on polit­i­cal deep­fakes. Protest orga­niz­ers behind No Kings have said the video “proves the exact point” of their demon­stra­tion — that pow­er, mocked or not, should nev­er be absolute.

As of pub­li­ca­tion, Trump’s team has not respond­ed to Loggins’s state­ment.

Final Thoughts

Ken­ny Loggins’s stand goes beyond a sim­ple copy­right dis­pute. It’s a reminder that music car­ries emo­tion­al and cul­tur­al pow­er — and when mis­used, that pow­er can wound rather than inspire.

Whether or not legal action fol­lows, one thing is clear: in 2025’s chaot­ic inter­sec­tion of AI, art, and pol­i­tics, the “Dan­ger Zone” has nev­er felt more real.