Neil Young slams Donald Trump over fascist rules in | Music News

Neil Young is not pulling any punches with his latest protest anthem concentrating on President Donald Trump.

The legendary musician dropped a defiant observe titled “Big Crime” that he captured during a sound examine with Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts at a Chicago live performance on Wednesday, August 27, 2025. The official audio surfaced on YouTube just in the future later.

While Trump’s title never seems in the lyrics, the track instantly addresses his latest coverage strikes, including the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., and his takeover of town’s police operations.

The Republican justified this motion as vital for “halting the precipitous rise in violent crime” in the nation’s capital.

However, statistics from the Metropolitan Police Department, as reported by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves, show violent crime truly reached a 30-year low in D.C.

This is not the first event the Canadian-American artist has criticized Trump through his music. In 2020, Neil up to date his 2006 observe Lookin’ for a Leader with lyrics particularly concentrating on Trump.

The revised model featured new lyrics stating, “America has a leader building walls around our house / Who don’t know Black lives matter and we got to vote him out.”

The unique composition criticized then-President George W. Bush without naming him instantly, calling for “someone who’s straight and strong / to lead us from desolation and a broken world gone wrong” while suggesting Barack Obama or a girl (without specifying names) as potential leaders.

The track appeared on Neil’s 2006 album Living With War, which also featured a observe called “Let’s Impeach the President.”

The Harvest Moon musician beforehand took legal motion against Trump for utilizing his songs “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Devil’s Sidewalk” at marketing campaign occasions in 2015 and 2020, though he withdrew the lawsuit in 2020.

In 2015, following Neil’s representatives’ assertion that Trump wasn’t licensed to use Rockin’ in the Free World and that the artist supported Bernie Sanders, Trump tweeted that “he didn’t love it anyway” relating to the track.

Last April, Neil voiced issues on his web site about probably being banned from the United States due to his criticism of Trump. “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 are barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” he penned on his web site, according to The Guardian.

He additional acknowledged, “If the fact that I feel Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of our country could stop me from coming back, what does that say for freedom?”.

In a latest post on his web site, the 79-year-old also took a jab at Trump. Neil wrote, “Today Trump said his name deserves to be on the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE… Independence from Truth, I guess.”