"It's very hard to talk about this," Greenwood admitted, "but I think music and art should be above and beyond political concerns. You know I made an album [2023's Jarak Qaribak] involving Israeli, Iraqi, Egyptian and Syrian musicians?"
The Melania Trump documentary includes a portion of Jonny Greenwood's Oscar-nominated score to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread. In a new statement released Monday, Greenwood said that while he does own the copyright to the score, Universal Pictures "failed to consult [him] on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement." "As a result Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary," the statement adds.