{"id":1986335,"date":"2025-08-29T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1986335"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:54:23","slug":"neil-young-confronts-donald-trump-in-new-song-big-crime-dont-want-soldiers-on-the-streets-neil-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/neil-young-confronts-donald-trump-in-new-song-big-crime-dont-want-soldiers-on-the-streets-neil-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young confronts Donald Trump in new song Big Crime: \u2018Don\u2019t want soldiers on the streets\u2019 | Neil Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Neil Young has released a new song lambasting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Donald Trump<\/a>, entitled Big Crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Canadian-American rocker has long been a critic of the US president, suing him (but later dropping the lawsuit) over the use of his songs at campaign rallies and calling him \u201cthe worst president in the history of our great country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He has stepped up that criticism in the new song, which has been posted to Young\u2019s YouTube channel. Featuring his backing band the Chrome Hearts, it was recorded during a sound check at a concert on Chicago\u2019s Northerly Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThere\u2019s big crime in DC at the White House,\u201d Young sings in the chorus, as a comment on Trump\u2019s previous legal difficulties, as well as a sarcastic reference to Trump\u2019s current crackdown on crime in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump declared a \u201ccrime emergency\u201d in DC <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/11\/trump-washington-dc-crime\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">earlier this month<\/a>, seized control of the city\u2019s police force and deployed national guard troops. He claimed the move was aimed at \u201chalting the precipitous rise in violent crime\u201d, though in January the city\u2019s police department and US attorney Matthew Graves had announced a 30-year low for crime there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cDon\u2019t need no fascist rules \/ don\u2019t want no fascist schools \/ don\u2019t want soldiers walking on the streets,\u201d Young sings. \u201cGot to get the fascists out \/ got to clean the White House out \u2026 no more money to the fascists, the billionaire fascists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Riffing on Trump\u2019s \u201cmake America great again\u201d slogan, Young adds: \u201cNo more great again.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"5f8aed94-757c-4e58-a16a-d7f505d7910a\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-13aa88h\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/57WEArtc2ps?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Audio)\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Young has previously criticised Trump in song, updating his 2006 song Lookin\u2019 for a Leader in 2020 to include lyrics about him. \u201cAmerica has a leader building walls around our house \/ Who don\u2019t know Black lives matter and we got to vote him out,\u201d Young sang, characterising Trump as \u201cscared of his own shadow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 2006 original was targeted at then-president George W Bush, calling for \u201csomeone who\u2019s straight and strong \/ to lead us from desolation and a broken world gone wrong\u201d, and mooting Barack Obama for the task. It was included on the album Living With War, on which Young criticised Bush in the plainest terms possible with the song Let\u2019s Impeach the President.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump used Young\u2019s song Rockin\u2019 in the Free World when announcing he was running for president in 2015 \u2013 possibly taking its anthemic chorus at face value rather than understanding the ironic meaning of a song charting social collapse during the Reagan era. Young said he supported Bernie Sanders for president and Trump dropped the use of the song, saying he \u201cdidn\u2019t love it anyway\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But it reappeared on the playlist at a 2020 rally along with another Young song, Devil\u2019s Sidewalk. Young sued Trump over the use, with the lawsuit stating that Young \u201ccannot allow his music to be used as a \u2018theme song\u2019 for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate\u201d. Young later voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Young, who became a dual US-Canadian citizen in 2020 and called Trump \u201ca disgrace to my country\u201d that year, expressed worry earlier in 2025 that his criticism of Trump would mean he would not be allowed back into the US. \u201cWhen 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 aluminium blanket,\u201d he wrote on his website.<\/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.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Young has released a new song lambasting Donald Trump, entitled Big Crime. The Canadian-American rocker has long been a critic of the US president, suing him (but later dropping the lawsuit) over the use of his songs at campaign rallies and calling him \u201cthe worst president in the history of our great country\u201d. 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