Neil Young confronts Donald Trump in new song Big Crime: ‘Don’t want soldiers on the streets’ | Neil Young

Neil Younger has launched a brand new tune lambasting Donald Trump, entitled Huge Crime.The Canadian-American rocker has lengthy been a critic of the US president, suing him (however later dropping the lawsuit) over the usage of his songs at marketing campaign rallies and calling him “the worst president within the historical past of our nice nation”.He has stepped up that criticism within the new tune, which has been posted to Younger’s YouTube channel. That includes his backing band the Chrome Hearts, it was recorded throughout a sound test at a live performance on Chicago’s Northerly Island.“There’s huge crime in DC on the White Home,” Younger sings within the refrain, as a touch upon Trump’s earlier authorized difficulties, in addition to a sarcastic reference to Trump’s present crackdown on crime in Washington DC.Trump declared a “crime emergency” in DC earlier this month, seized management of the town’s police power and deployed nationwide guard troops. He claimed the transfer was aimed toward “halting the precipitous rise in violent crime”, although in January the town’s police division and US lawyer Matthew Graves had introduced a 30-year low for crime there.“Don’t want no fascist guidelines / don’t need no fascist faculties / don’t need troopers strolling on the streets,” Younger sings. “Bought to get the fascists out / received to wash the White Home out … no extra money to the fascists, the billionaire fascists”.Riffing on Trump’s “make America nice once more” slogan, Younger provides: “No extra nice once more.”Younger has beforehand criticised Trump in tune, updating his 2006 tune Lookin’ for a Chief in 2020 to incorporate lyrics about him. “America has a frontrunner constructing partitions round our home / Who don’t know Black lives matter and we received to vote him out,” Younger sang, characterising Trump as “fearful of his personal shadow”.The 2006 authentic was focused at then-president George W Bush, calling for “somebody who’s straight and powerful / to guide us from desolation and a damaged world gone mistaken”, and mooting Barack Obama for the duty. It was included on the album Residing With Warfare, on which Younger criticised Bush within the plainest phrases potential with the tune Let’s Impeach the President.Trump used Younger’s tune Rockin’ within the Free World when saying he was operating for president in 2015 – probably taking its anthemic refrain at face worth moderately than understanding the ironic which means of a tune charting social collapse in the course of the Reagan period. Younger stated he supported Bernie Sanders for president and Trump dropped the usage of the tune, saying he “didn’t like it anyway”.Nevertheless it reappeared on the playlist at a 2020 rally together with one other Younger tune, Satan’s Sidewalk. Younger sued Trump over the use, with the lawsuit stating that Younger “can not permit his music for use as a ‘theme tune’ for a divisive, un-American marketing campaign of ignorance and hate”. Younger later voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit.Younger, who turned a twin US-Canadian citizen in 2020 and referred to as Trump “a shame to my nation” that yr, expressed fear earlier in 2025 that his criticism of Trump would imply he wouldn’t be allowed again into the US. “Once I go to play music in Europe, if I discuss Donald J Trump, I could also be a kind of returning to America who’s barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement ground with an aluminium blanket,” he wrote on his web site.