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\n\tThe Pentagon deleted and reposted a video boasting about how President Donald Trump\u2019s administration will increase its use of drone warfare. The first version featured the Metallica song \u201cEnter Sandman\u201d in the background. The second has no music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tA Metallica representative confirmed to Rolling Stone<\/em> that the use of \u201cEnter Sandman\u201d in the original video was unauthorized. The Pentagon said in a statement Friday that X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, asked the department to remove the video due to a copyright issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn the video, former Fox News host and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the military will manufacture and use more drones. \u201cWe were brought here to rebuild the military,\u201d he says. \u201cMatch capabilities to the threats of today. So while our adversaries have produced millions of cheap drones before us, we were mired in bureaucratic red tape. Not anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIn June, President Trump issued an executive order unleashing American drone dominance to bolster our drone industry and arm our war fighters, because that\u2019s what we\u2019re all about.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs he speaks, a quadcopter holding what appears to be a blank piece of paper is hovering above Hegseth\u2019s head. He reaches up and grabs the paper. \u201cHere\u2019s the memo we\u2019re signing today, delivered via drone,\u201d he says, signing the page.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe Defense Department told Military.com\u2019s Konstantin Toropin Friday that X contacted them about the video. \u201cThis afternoon, representatives from X reached out to DoD regarding a video posted to our social media page and asked that the video be removed due to a copyright issue with the song \u2018Enter Sandman\u2019 by Metallica. The video has been taken down, corrected, and re-uploaded to our page,\u201d said Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tDuring his first time in office, Trump dramatically increased the military\u2019s use of drone strikes.<\/p>\n \n\tAn instrumental version of \u201cEnter Sandman\u201d played during the president\u2019s recent lackluster military parade, which outraged Metallica fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tRolling Stone <\/em>reported that parade organizers were even issued a cease-and-desist letter over \u201cillegally\u201d playing \u201cHe Ain\u2019t Heavy, He\u2019s My Brother,\u201d after they were explicitly told they could not use the song.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSo many musicians have opposed Trump\u2019s use of their music that there is a Wikipedia page devoted to it, listing more than 40 artists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe U.S. military has used Metallica\u2019s heavy metal music for dark purposes in the past. During the Iraq War, the military reportedly used Metallica music to torture detainees. In 2013, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden told Esquire that the band asked the military to stop using the song for such purposes. \u201cWhen we first started the war in Iraq, we were using Metallica music to soften people up before we interrogated them,\u201d\u00a0he said. \u201cMetallica got wind of this and they said, \u2018Hey, please don\u2019t use our music because we don\u2019t want to promote violence.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2016, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told Vulture there\u2019s not much the band can do about the military using its music that way. \u201cI\u2019ve had to sit there and answer questions like, \u2018How do you feel about the U.S. military using your songs to torture prisoners?\u2019 I mean, as much as that makes me squirm, when you hand those recording master tapes to the FedEx guy and then the music goes out into the world, you\u2019ve gotta let it go. Whether people like it or hate it, you just find a way to deal with it. So if [former House Speaker] Paul Ryan likes Metallica, hallelujah, it\u2019s fine with me.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tThe same year, he told a Danish tabloid that he had considered moving back to Denmark if Trump won. Ulrich was born in Denmark and is not a U.S. citizen.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhen asked about his thoughts on Bruce Springsteen calling Trump a \u201cmoron,\u201d he explained: \u201cIf Bruce Springsteen felt that, then he should say it. I totally support his doing that. The thing is, I\u2019m not an American citizen. I pay taxes here, but I can\u2019t vote. So I have this strange thing about commenting on this country\u2019s politics. I have nothing but love and respect for Bruce Springsteen\u2026. But it\u2019s not for me to say he should or shouldn\u2019t do what he wants to do.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tIn 2017, Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett alluded to historical comparisons to Trump in a series of posts on what was then Twitter: \u201cTrump\u2019s Inaugural Address and his asking us to put America first sounds, to me, familiar to \u2026 what was said in speeches going around Germany in the 1930\u2019s \u2026 and later Russia in the 1940\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe concluded: \u201cIf we don\u2019t put up a fight we risk losing our rights. Defend Democracy from those who want to crush it !\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pentagon deleted and reposted a video boasting about how President Donald Trump\u2019s administration will increase its use of drone warfare. The first version featured the Metallica song \u201cEnter Sandman\u201d in the background. 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