{"id":1985646,"date":"2025-08-28T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985646"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:09:34","slug":"neil-young-unveils-new-anti-trump-song-big-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/neil-young-unveils-new-anti-trump-song-big-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young unveils new anti-Trump song, Big Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Neil Young has shared a new song, <em>Big Crime<\/em>, which takes aim at the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>On the fiery track, Young sings, &#8220;Got to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out,&#8221; and &#8220;There&#8217;s big crime in D.C. at the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young and his band, the Chrome Hearts, are currently on tour and performed the song for the first time during the Chicago stop on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts perform Big Crime live:<\/strong><\/em> <span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/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><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another lyric in the song calls out President Trump&#8217;s decision to deploy the military\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.6879596\" target=\"_blank\">in Washington. D.C<\/a>. as part of his\u00a0crackdown on crime: &#8220;Don&#8217;t want soldiers on our streets,&#8221; Young sings.<\/p>\n<p>Young has previously spoken out against the president. In 2015, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/music\/neil-young-sues-donald-trump-over-copyright-infringement-1.5673925\" target=\"_blank\">he filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Trump for using the song <em>Rockin&#8217; in the Free World<\/em> during his campaign, and in 2020, he endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and said Trump was &#8220;a disgrace to my country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment, and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable,&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/neil-young-letter-trump-954835\/\" target=\"_blank\">Young shared<\/a> on his website, Neil Young Archives, in an open letter to Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More recently, in April, Young\u00a0expressed concerns about the president allowing him to tour in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/apr\/02\/neil-young-fears-us-ban-donald-trump-criticism\" target=\"_blank\">Young wrote<\/a> on Neil Young Archives.\u00a0&#8220;That is happening all the time now. Countries have new advice for those returning to America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I come back from Europe and am barred, can&#8217;t play my USA tour, all of the folks who bought tickets will not be able to come to a concert by me,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s right folks. If you say anything bad about Trump or his administration, you may be barred from re-entering [the] USA if you are Canadian. If you are a dual citizen like me, who knows? We&#8217;ll all find that out together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young has released many politically-charged songs throughout his career and was also openly critical about the Richard Nixon administration. His 1970 song, <em>Ohio<\/em>, is famously about the\u00a0Kent State University shootings that took place in\u00a0May\u00a0of that year, when the Ohio National Guard was called in to quell an anti-Vietnam War\u00a0protest that resulted in the death of four students. &#8220;Tin soldiers and Nixon&#8217;s coming,&#8221; he sings.<\/p>\n<p>Young is next set to perform in Milwaukee on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>LISTEN | The official audio for Big Crime: <\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57WEArtc2ps?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><\/span><\/p>\n<\/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.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Young has shared a new song, Big Crime, which takes aim at the Trump administration. On the fiery track, Young sings, &#8220;Got to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out,&#8221; and &#8220;There&#8217;s big crime in D.C. at the White House.&#8221; Young and his band, the Chrome Hearts, are currently on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1985647,"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-1985646","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-unveils-new-anti-Trump-song-Big-Crime.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985646","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=1985646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}