Overview
- Young posted multiple pieces on Jan. 8–9 to his Neil Young Archives site, including “It’s ICE Cold Here in America,” shortly after ICE fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
- He accused President Trump of “destroying America,” warning that the administration is fostering instability and turning cities into battlegrounds.
- Young urged Americans to “Rise up. Peacefully in millions,” presenting mass, nonviolent protest as the necessary response.
- His editorials blasted ICE and included the inaccurate assertion that the agency did not exist before Trump, which outlets corrected by noting ICE’s post‑9/11 creation within DHS.
- Coverage tied the posts to Young’s ongoing activism, citing his 2025 protest song “Big Crime,” as Trump supporters reacted online with denunciations of the musician.