{"id":1986462,"date":"2025-08-29T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1986462"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:11:01","slug":"neil-young-drops-scathing-protest-song-aimed-straight-at-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/neil-young-drops-scathing-protest-song-aimed-straight-at-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Drops Scathing Protest Song Aimed Straight At Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rock legend Neil Young is ripping <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> with a new song that explicitly blasts the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s big crime in D.C. at the White House,\u201d Young sings in the chorus of \u201cBig Crime,\u201d which he released on YouTube Thursday with his backing band, the Chrome Hearts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Other lyrics also swipe at Trump, such as \u201cdon\u2019t need no fascist rules, don\u2019t want no fascist schools, don\u2019t want soldiers walking on the streets\u201d and \u201cgot to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out, don\u2019t want soldiers on our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s signature \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d slogan is also flipped with Young\u2019s repeated line of \u201cNo more great again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The track was recorded during a soundcheck before Young\u2019s recent concert in Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Young, a longtime critic of Trump, has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/neil-young-donald-trump-europe-tour_n_67ed09f9e4b0061bf7e6c7b5\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"previously clashed with Trump\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68b17f64e4b0d635adb504c7\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"67ed09f9e4b0061bf7e6c7b5\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">previously clashed with Trump<\/a> over the unauthorized use of his music at campaign rallies and in 2020 reworked his 2006 song \u201cLookin\u2019 for a Leader\u201d to explicitly denounce the president.<\/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.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock legend Neil Young is ripping Donald Trump with a new song that explicitly blasts the president. \u201cThere\u2019s big crime in D.C. at the White House,\u201d Young sings in the chorus of \u201cBig Crime,\u201d which he released on YouTube Thursday with his backing band, the Chrome Hearts. 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