Nancy Sinatra pleads with Donald Trump to stop using Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’: “This is a sacrilege”
Nancy Sinatra has again condemned President Donald Trump for using the music of her father, Frank Sinatra, on social media.
Over the weekend, Trump took to Truth Social to share footage of Sinatra performing ‘My Way’ at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 1978 without any context attached.
However, although Trump was not seemingly using ‘My Way’ to promote a political message, Nancy has condemned him for sharing the clip.
In response to being alerted on X by a fan who said, “Trump goes against everything that Frank stood for. He was a big champion for equality and supported the Civil Rights movement,” Nancy responded, “This is a sacrilege.”
When asked by another user if there was anything that she could do to prevent Trump from using her late father’s music, Nancy replied, “Unfortunately no. The only people who can do something are the publishers.”
She also reposted a fan who stated that “Nancy Sinatra will confirm again that her father loathed Donald Trump,” and another who wrote, “Trump may love Sinatra, but Sinatra did not love Trump.”
In December, Nancy opened up about her father’s strong dislike of Trump on a personal level. In response to a video of an alleged ICE raid targeting Latin workers at a construction site, Nancy initially wrote on X, “This is not my father’s America. He would be devastated. Trump is so wrong in so many ways.”
She then replied to a fan who claimed that her father would have been MAGA, telling them angrily, “Do some homework before you make a fool of yourself. My dad LOATHED trump.”
Previously, in 2017, Frank Sinatra’s former manager Eliot Weisman explained in his autobiography, The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra, why the singer hated Trump.
Weisman had agreed a deal for Sinatra to perform a residency at Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City in 1990, which had recently opened. However, following the death of Trump’s employee Mark Grossinger Etess, who made the agreement with Weisman, Trump personally intervened and reportedly attempted to “lowball” the singer.
As a result, Weisman claimed that Sinatra told Trump to “go fuck himself” and instead performed a residency at the Sands in Las Vegas rather than the Taj Mahal.
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