Adele tells Donald Trump to stop playing her songs.

Adele has had enough of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump using her music to promote his bid for the White House.

Trump has been using Adele’s hits Rolling in the Deep and Skyfall at his political rallies, but the superstar has issued a request for him to stop.

Fans of Adele noticed the songs were being used, and began tweeting at the singer to get her to stop Trump from playing them.

Overnight, Adele’s camp decided to do something about it.

“Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning,” her spokesman said.

The short statement was met with much approval from fans.

But Trump is also an Adele fan, taking time out from the campaign in November to attend her one-off concert in New York.

And it turns out that Adele might not have much luck actually getting Trump to stop.

Entertainment lawyer Steve Gordon told The Guardian that in the US, anyone who wants to license a song can do so – an artist can’t refuse them.

They might be able to sue for trademark infringement, right of publicity or unfair trade practises, but coming out against Trump using her songs would make it more difficult for those claims to succeed.

“If she’s coming out publicly against using her music, then she’s not endorsing him so no one would think she was. If I was his lawyer, he’s got a strong case, and she’s got a BS claim. If they tried to do anything legally … at the end of the day, she’d lose,” he said.

Adele’s music has also been co-opted by fellow Republican hopeful Mike Huckabee, who released a version of her hit song “Hello” with Huckabee-positive lyrics earlier this week. (it’s since been taken down)

In 2011 Adele called Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron a “wally”, and has declared herself a “Labour girl”.

But she also credits Sarah Palin’s Saturday Night Live appearance alongside her in 2008 as helping to raise her profile in the US.

Trump is no stranger to artists asking him to stop using their music. Neil Young told the billionaire businessman to drop his songs from the campaign trail, and Aerosmith have also requested he drop their tunes.

Who knows what he’ll say about Adele.