I understand that as long as the musicians are paid for Trump or anyone else using their songs under fair use procedures, there is nothing they can do.
Yes it is just empty posturing by the Leftard musicians for the MSM.
It’s called a Public Performance License, and virtually any commercial use of recorded music needs to have one. But once you do, and pay the licence fee, there’s not much the artist can do (except bitch, of course). It’s why the PPL was created, clearly no performer has time to deal with the countless bars, clubs, malls, etc who play their music and equally none of those entities could possibly arrange deals with thousands of artists.
They try to say political use is different but it’s not, really. A good way to waste some of their money however instead of giving it to bad candidates.
https://www.ascap.com/help/ascap-licensing