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Pharrell Williams not 'Happy,' threatens to sue Trump for using song after mass killing

Pharrell Williams is not "Happy" that President Donald Trump used his song. The singer, 45, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump after the president played Williams' 2014 smash hit "Happy" at a political event in the Midwest Saturday, just hours after nearly a dozen people were gunned down in a Pittsburgh synagogue. “On the day of the mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a deranged ‘nationalist,’ you played his song ‘Happy’ to a crowd at a political event in Indiana,” Williams' lawyer, Howard King, wrote in the letter obtained by USA TODAY. Williams' legal team noted that the use of the song was not only poorly timed, but in violation of "copyright infringement" and "trademark rights." "There was nothing ‘happy’ about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for your use of this song for this purpose,” the letter read. The letter made it clear that Williams "