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Rihanna doesn’t want Trump playing her music at his ‘tragic rallies,’ but she may not have a choice

Hours before President Trump took the stage at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Sunday night, Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” reverberated through the 11,000-seat McKenzie Arena. “Trump’s rallies are unlike anything else in politics,” The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker wrote on Twitter, where he described the  scene : staff members throwing Trump T-shirts into the crowd “like a ball game,”  lines  stretching out the doors. “Keep on rockin' to it,” Rihanna’s recorded voice sung out. “Please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the music.” But when the pop star learned that her 2007 hit song had been featured at the rally, her response was unambiguous: She did, in fact, want the music to stop. “Not for much longer,” she tweeted, in response to Trump using her song. “... me nor my people would ever be at or around one of those tragic rallies.” Rihanna ✔ @rihanna Not for much longer...me nor my people would e...