Overview
- Posting on his Neil Young Archives site, Young wrote that “today the USA is a disaster” and accused President Trump of “destroying America.”
- The essay landed days after an ICE officer fatally shot a protester in Minneapolis, an incident reported to have triggered demonstrations across multiple cities.
- Young urged Americans to “rise up” peacefully in the millions and warned that Trump is turning cities into battlegrounds to justify canceling elections under martial law, presenting this as his assessment.
- He aimed sharp criticism at ICE, asserting there was no ICE or soldiers in the streets before Trump, a claim Rolling Stone noted is not literally accurate.
- Young also said he will pull his music from Amazon and called on fans to buy local, framing the editorial as the latest chapter in his long-running dispute with Trump, who praised his voice in 2008.