US president Donald Trump’s 2020 election campaign video was removed from Twitter on Tuesday after Warner Brothers Pictures requested it to be taken down due to the use of the music from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises score in the clip.
The two-minute video posted by the President on his official handle had been viewed over 2 million times before it was taken down with a note that it was done in “response to a report by the copyright owner”.
The video also featured Rosie Rosie O’Donnell, Bryan Cranston, Amy Schumer, Hillary Clinton,Barack Obama, John Dickerson and Bill Clinton.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/diXWQHuyGj
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 9, 2019
“The use of Warner Bros’ score from The Dark Knight Rises in the campaign video was unauthorized,” a Warner Brothers spokesperson told variety.com before the removal. “We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed.”
The video also used the font from the film’s title cards apart from the Academy Award winner, Hans Zimmer’s Why Do We Fall from the 2012 film, the third installment of Batman franchise.
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they call you a racist. Donald J. Trump. Your vote. Proved them all wrong. Trump: The Great Victory. 2020,” declared the video, using the font.
This is also not the first time the US president used Nolan’s Batman flick for inspiration. Many have also drawn similarities between Trump’s January 2017 inauguration speech and the rhetoric Bane uses when he captures the Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises.