{"id":1985181,"date":"2025-08-28T18:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985181"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:46:51","slug":"neil-young-debuts-new-anti-trump-song-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/neil-young-debuts-new-anti-trump-song-on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young debuts new anti-Trump song on tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Count on Neil Young to make a clear public statement on his beliefs. The 79-year-old artist has remained consistent in his political activism throughout his career, up to Thursday\u2019s release of \u201cBig Crime.\u201d The new track\u2014which is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\/article?id=Viewpoint%20-%20%20%20BIG%20CRIME%20AT%20CHICAGO%20SOUNDCHECK\">available for listening<\/a> on his website, Neil Young Archives\u2014is a response to President Donald Trump\u2019s mobilization of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., a move Trump supposedly made to reduce crime (though the crime statistics of the city tell a different story).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"revcontent-hidden\"> <!-- revisit --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young debuted \u201cBig Crime\u201d on stage with his band the Chrome Hearts at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago\u2019s Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island on Wednesday as part of his \u201cLove Earth\u201d world tour. The song follows in the lyrical mold of old-school protest songs: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGot to get the fascists out\/Got to clean the White House out\/Don\u2019t want no soldiers on our streets\/There\u2019s big crime in D.C. at the White House,\u201d Young sings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_1 --> <!-- mostpopular-start --><!-- mostpopular-end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Young - Big Crime (Live Debut) + Like A Hurricane - 08\/27\/2025 - Chicago, IL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fql4JKFvbkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young has been vocal about his opposition to Trump for many years, in addition to using his platform to protest a variety of social ills. For instance, he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/neil-young-gives-spotify-an-ultimatum-him-or-joe-rogan-1848414951\">removed his music from Spotify<\/a> in 2022 because the platform hosted COVID-19 misinformation like vaccine skeptic Joe Rogan. More recently, he announced he would no longer be a part of or <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/neil-young-facebook-underage-ai\">engage with Facebook<\/a> after it was reported Meta\u2019s AI chatbot was allowed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to \u201cengage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,\u201d among other disturbing things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- inlinecontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"grid-x articles-inline-insert\" id=\"inline-related-articles\">\n<ul class=\"articles grid-margin-x flex-container flex-dir-column\">\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/neil-young-facebook-underage-ai\"><b class=\"title\">There will be no more &#8220;Neil Young related activities&#8221; on Facebook<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/neil-young-no-dynamic-pricing-robert-smith-ticketmaster\"><b class=\"title\">Neil Young drops dynamic ticket pricing thanks to The Cure&#8217;s Robert Smith<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more insight into Neil Young\u2019s mind, the artist frequently shares his stream-of-consciousness thoughts <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\">while blogging<\/a> on the road during his tour. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday Trump said his name deserves to be on the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE\u2026 Independence from Truth I guess,\u201d he complained earlier this month. And after Trump\u2019s recent meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin: \u201cAs our president entertains world thug war criminal on American soil, I remember how he treated [Zelenskyy] in [our] White House\u2026 but there is more to life than that,\u201d Young wrote. \u201cI remember the faces in Ohio as we sang a song remembering the victims of an earlier thug president. There will be more on the streets of our nation. We need to stand together and defend one another as our time approaches.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- inlinecontent_2 -->                                  <!-- <\/div>\n\n   --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.avclub.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count on Neil Young to make a clear public statement on his beliefs. The 79-year-old artist has remained consistent in his political activism throughout his career, up to Thursday\u2019s release of \u201cBig Crime.\u201d The new track\u2014which is available for listening on his website, Neil Young Archives\u2014is a response to President Donald Trump\u2019s mobilization of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1985182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Neil-Young-debuts-new-anti-Trump-song-on-tour.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}