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Neil Young has accused US President Donald Trump of making the country a “disaster” and called on US citizens to “rise up” in peaceful protests against his regime.
Yang published a strongly worded editorial in the Times Contrarian section of his website, delivering a stinging rebuke of Trump.
“Wake up, people!” he wrote. “America today is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit, run by wannabes, people without experience and talent, wife beaters who drink alcohol in private, inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to please Trump’s falsehoods , so that they can keep their unearned jobs in his incompetent administration, filled with Republicans like idiots who have no conscience… He has divided us. How did we elect these people who have no standing, no values, no morals, and no way to save America?
“We need to take Trump at his word,” he continued. “Make America great again. It won’t be easy when he tries to turn our cities into battlegrounds so he can pass marshal laws to cancel our elections and escape all accountability… Something has to be done to change that. We know what to do. Stand up. Millions of people are living in peace. Too many innocent people [sic] People are dying.
“It’s cold here in America. There was no ICE before Trump. There were no soldiers on the streets before Trump. Every move he made was to create instability so he could stay in power.
“He knows nothing about love,” Young concluded. “He didn’t know you were like this. Use your love for life, your love for each other, your love for your children and theirs and ours. In peace. Now.”
Wake up, people! America today is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America
Neil Young
Young’s editorial follows another article in which he expressed outrage over the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. immigration agent in Minneapolis.
“This morning an ICE officer shot a woman three times in the face for no apparent reason in Minneapolis,” he wrote. “These ICE people don’t act like police. They are thugs. Bad status. Faces covered. Is ICE the new American mob cop?”
Yang also slammed the administration’s controversial remarks about taking over Greenland and removing women and people of color from military leadership.
This isn’t the first time Yang has denounced Donald Trump’s presidency. Last August, the singer-songwriter released a song titled big crime In it, he made a scathing indictment of Trump’s second term in the White House.
Part of the song’s lyrics are:
“The fascists must be driven out
The White House must be cleaned up
Don’t want soldiers on our streets
A major crime occurred at the White House in Washington, D.C.”
