Neil Young isn’t pulling any punches with his latest protest anthem targeting President Donald Trump.
The legendary musician dropped a defiant track titled “Big Crime” that he captured during a sound check with Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts at a Chicago concert on Wednesday, August 27, 2025. The official audio surfaced on YouTube just one day later.
While Trump’s name never appears in the lyrics, the song directly addresses his recent policy moves, including the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., and his takeover of the city’s police operations.
The Republican justified this action as necessary for “halting the precipitous rise in violent crime” in the nation’s capital.
However, statistics from the Metropolitan Police Department, as reported by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves, show violent crime actually reached a 30-year low in D.C.
This isn’t the first occasion the Canadian-American artist has criticized Trump through his music. In 2020, Neil updated his 2006 track Lookin’ for a Leader with lyrics specifically targeting Trump.
The revised version featured new lyrics stating, “America has a leader building walls around our house / Who don’t know Black lives matter and we got to vote him out.”
The original composition criticized then-President George W. Bush without naming him directly, calling for “someone who’s straight and strong / to lead us from desolation and a broken world gone wrong” while suggesting Barack Obama or a woman (without specifying names) as potential leaders.
The song appeared on Neil’s 2006 album Living With War, which also featured a track called “Let’s Impeach the President.”
The Harvest Moon musician previously took legal action against Trump for using his songs “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Devil’s Sidewalk” at campaign events in 2015 and 2020, though he withdrew the lawsuit in 2020.
In 2015, following Neil’s representatives’ statement that Trump wasn’t authorized to use Rockin’ in the Free World and that the artist supported Bernie Sanders, Trump tweeted that “he didn’t love it anyway” regarding the song.
Last April, Neil voiced concerns on his website about potentially being banned from the United States due to his criticism of Trump. “When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who are barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” he penned on his website, according to The Guardian.
He further stated, “If the fact that I think Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of our country could stop me from coming back, what does that say for freedom?”.
In a recent post on his website, the 79-year-old also took a jab at Trump. Neil wrote, “Today Trump said his name deserves to be on the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE… Independence from Truth, I guess.”
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