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Controversy emerges about the music played at Trump's Inauguration Ball.

We’re one day in and Trump has already put even more people offside. And this time it has to do with the music selection at his Inaugural Freedom Ball.

I’m sure you remember Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” as the catchy theme song for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It was the nifty little tune that had you secretly punching the air and singing it to yourself in the bathroom mirror.

Well it turns out an instrumental version of “Fight Song” was played by the Utah-based Piano Guys, at the Inaugural Ball on Friday night, without Platten’s permission.

“While I respect the office of the President and the peaceful transfer of power, I want to make clear that at no point did the Piano Guys ask for permission, nor did I or anyone on my team know of, approve or endorse their decision to play Fight Song tonight,” the singer-songwriter tweeted after witnessing the mashup of her song with “Amazing Grace”, at the Inaugural Ball.

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The Piano Guys responded with: “Our performance tonight, which combined ‘Fight Song’ and ‘Amazing Grace’ had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton or politics,” they tweeted. “We chose to perform our version of ‘Fight Song/Amazing Grace’ – it was not endorsed by Rachel Platten. We love Rachel and we love her song.”

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So sorry not sorry, guys?

But the music related controversy doesn’t end there. Trump also chose Frank Sinatra’s iconic “My Way” for his first dance as President with his wife Melania.

When a Twitter fan asked Sinatra’s daughter, Nancy, her thoughts on reports that Trump has chosen the classic hit, she hit back with the hilarious tweet: “Just remember the first line of the song.”

‘My Way’ opens with the line “And now the end is near”.

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Sinatra had earlier made it clear that her father would not have been a Trump supporter, when she tweeted that he would “never had supported a bigot”.

But after her “My Way” tweet went viral, Sinatra stated that her tweet was intended as a joke not a warning, tweeting: “I’m not sure why this became such a big deal. It was really just a joke.”

Still it looks like Nancy (and Frank) had the last laugh here.