Dr D's column: How S Tyler can get Trump to stop playing 'Livin’ On The Edge' at rallies

Dear Dr D,

You may have seen this report that my lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the US President to stop using our song ‘Livin’ On The Edge’ at his rallies as he enters.

The letter said, “Mr Trump is creating the false impression that our client has given his consent for the use of his music, and even that he endorses the presidency of Mr Trump.” On the one hand, of course this is about politics.


Our music is for causes, not for political campaigns or rallies.

On the other hand, and this is what I came to you for, it is also about aesthetics. I’m an artist, man. I imagine stuff and then give it life as music.

But Trump has totally ruined my life’s work for me. I cannot listen to any of my songs without hearing his voice mauling our precious lyrics.

.. Walk This Way (and be grabbed by me!)
.. Dude Looks Like A Lady (oops grabbed him by mistake!)
.. Falling In Love Is Hard On The Knees (no, that was the Clinton Oral Office!)
.. Get It Up (I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. FAKE NEWS!!)
.. Janie’s Got A Gun (or is he just happy to see Ivanka?)
.. Love In An Elevator (take me to that Penthouse chick!!!)

What can I do to get rid of his voice?

S Tyler,
Aerosmith

Dear S Tyler,

1) Wait till next year (like the rest of us)
2) ‘Dream On’.

(He is one of the leading doctors in the country. He values his privacy (but not of his clients.)

* STATUTORY WARNING: This humour column is not for the weak-kneed or the thin-skinned.

Trump Isn't The First! Here Are Other US Presidents Caught In Lawsuits

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Donald Trump is being sued by a former porn actress over a “hushed settlement” about their relationship. Trump, however, is not the first US President at the end of litigations.

Donald Trump is being sued by a former porn actress over a “hushed settlement” about their relationship. Trump, however, is not the first US President at the end of litigations.

In 2002, a woman from Texas, Marie Schoedinger, had accused Bush of allegedly kidnapping, drugging and raping her. The woman also filed a $50 million lawsuit against him after her statements made headlines. However, in what is debated as the Bush administration’s biggest cover-up, Schoedinger was found dead with a suicide note just months after filing the lawsuit.

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Reagan was sued by members of Congress several times over his decisions to use force or approve US involvement in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Grenada. The largest suit against him was filed by 110 members of the House against the Reagan administration in 1987 during the Persian Gulf war between Iraq and Iran.

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More than four years after its publication, five disgruntled readers filed a $5 million class-action lawsuit against Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid contained “numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised”.

More than four years after its publication, five disgruntled readers filed a $5 million class-action lawsuit against Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book Palestine ..

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Nixon’s legacy might be marred by the Watergate scandal, but he also had a lawsuit to his name. Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald, a former US government employee, sued Nixon in 1968 after he was fired for testifying before Congress a cost discrepancy worth $2.3 billion in an aircraft program. Though Fitzgerald lost the suit, his case was instrumental in drafting the Whistle-blower Protection Act.

(Text: Viandra D'souza)

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