{"id":4813,"date":"2025-08-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-young-donald-trump-new-song\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:00:00","slug":"neil-young-donald-trump-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-young-donald-trump-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Tees Off On Trump With \u2018Big Crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1441965423-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Without calling Donald Trump out by name, Neil Young tees off on the U.S. government\u2019s recent mobilization of National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., in a new song, \u201cBig Crime,\u201d which he debuted last night (Aug. 27) in Chicago and has since posted a soundcheck recording of on his <a href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\/article?id=Viewpoint%20-%20%20%20BIG%20CRIME%20AT%20CHICAGO%20SOUNDCHECK\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo more great again \/ there\u2019s big crime in D.C. at the White House,\u201d the 79-year-old Young sings atop a measured tempo and his signature ragged guitar licks. \u201cDon\u2019t need no fascist rules \/ don\u2019t want no fascist schools \/ don\u2019t want soldiers on our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/hayley-williams-collects-17-singles-into-proper-lp\/\">Hayley Williams Reshapes 17 Singles Into Proper LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/lollapalooza-south-america\/\">Lollapalooza South America Lures Sabrina, Tyler, Chappell<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/cha-wa-stands-strong-after-the-flood\/\">Cha Wa Stands Strong After the Flood<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsewhere, Young references cutting off the money supply to \u201cbillionaire fascists\u201d and says it\u2019s \u201ctime to black out the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rock legend has repeatedly bashed Trump in the past, and his web site includes links to numerous news stories about Trump\u2019s policies. Young also sued Trump in 2020 when the latter\u2019s presidential campaign utilized \u201cRockin\u2019 in the Free World\u201d without a license. At the time, he said he couldn\u2019t \u201cin good conscience allow his music to be used as a \u2018theme song\u2019 for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has since expressed solidarity with Bruce Springsteen and other musicians who have publicly criticized Trump, writing, \u201cstop thinking about what rockers are saying. Think about saving America from the mess you made. Taylor Swift is right. So is Bruce. You know how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young is on tour with his band the Chrome Hearts through Sept. 15 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"Fql4JKFvbkg\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without calling Donald Trump out by name, Neil Young tees off on the U.S. government\u2019s recent mobilization of National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., in a new song, \u201cBig Crime,\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neil-young","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}