Neil Young Goes After Trump in New Protest Song

'Don't need no fascist rules,' he sings about the federal crackdown on crime in DC
Posted Aug 29, 2025 8:39 AM CDT

Neil Young is out with a new protest song scorching the policies of President Trump, reports the Guardian. In "Big Crime," the 79-year-old rocker—who is the same age as the president—focuses on federal troops in Washington, DC:

  • "Don't need no fascist rules / don't want no fascist schools / don't want soldiers walking on the streets," he sings. "Got to get the fascists out / got to clean the White House out … no more money to the fascists, the billionaire fascists."
  • Listen to it here.

  • The New York Times notes that Young doesn't mention Trump by name, though he sings, "There's big crime in DC at the White House."
  • Young has dual US-Canadian citizenship, and he has worried recently about not being allowed back into the US after touring abroad. "If I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket," he wrote on his website earlier this year, per Rolling Stone.
  • Young has previously sparred with Trump over the president's use of his music at rallies.

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