Trump<\/a>\u2019s leadership. <\/p>\n\n\tThe post arrives days after a protester was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis, an incident that sparked demonstrations in multiple U.S. cities.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cToday the USA is a disaster,\u201d Young wrote in the post, which was published earlier this month. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cDonald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes\u2026He has divided us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tYoung goes on to accuse Trump of fostering instability and using fear as a political tool, warning against what he characterizes as the militarization of American cities. \u201cMake America Great Again,\u201d Young wrote. \u201cIt won\u2019t be easy while he is trying to turn our cities into battlegrounds so he can cancel our elections with marshal law and escape all accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe musician also calls for collective action, urging Americans to respond through nonviolent protest. \u201cSomething has to change this,\u201d Young continued. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe know what to do. Rise up. Peacefully in millions. Too many innocent people are dying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the closing portion of the editorial, Young directs his sharpest language toward ICE, writing, \u201cIt\u2019s ICE cold here in America.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tHe criticizes what he views as expanded enforcement tactics under Trump, adding, \u201cEvery move he makes is to build instability so he can stay in power.\u201d Young concludes by encouraging readers to act from compassion rather than fear, emphasizing \u201clove of life\u201d and \u201clove of one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe post is the latest in a series of public rebukes Young has aimed at Trump over the years. Despite Trump\u2019s past praise of Young\u2019s music \u2014 the former president told Rolling Stone in 2008 that Young\u2019s voice was \u201cperfect and haunting\u201d \u2014 the artist has consistently objected to Trump\u2019s political views and use of his songs.<\/p>\n
\n\tYoung\u2019s criticism has also extended into his music. <\/p>\n
\n\tLast summer, he released the protest song \u201cBig Crime,\u201d which directly references Trump and political leadership in Washington, D.C. The track includes the lyric, \u201cThere\u2019s big crime in DC at the White House,\u201d and was later covered by Yo La Tengo.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition to the political commentary, Young has continued to keep fans updated on his archival projects, including progress on the upcoming fourth installment of his Archive Series<\/em> box sets, which compile unreleased recordings and historical material from across his career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Young has published a strongly worded new editorial criticizing Donald Trump, using his official Neil Young Archives website to address recent political unrest and reiterate his long-running opposition to the former president. Explore See latest videos, charts and news In the editorial, titled \u201cIt\u2019s ICE Cold Here in America,\u201d Young urges readers to \u201cwake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2229534,"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":[21932,24638],"class_list":["post-2229533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music-news","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Neil-Young-Urges-America-to-\u2018Rise-Up-in-Editorial-Criticizing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229533","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=2229533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229535,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229533\/revisions\/2229535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}