In latest months, Neil Younger has virtually made laying into Donald Trump his day job. And that almost all necessary work continues this week because the legendary rocker blasts the president with a brand new open letter by way of his official web site.
Titled “It’s ICE Chilly Right here in America,” the editorial comes within the rapid aftermath of Wednesday’s deadly taking pictures of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Younger calls this unprecedented second “the most important mess I’ve ever witnessed” earlier than urging folks to “get up…the USA is a catastrophe.”
The reason for this wholesale destruction is, after all, Trump himself, who has ruined America together with his “workers of wannabees, folks with no expertise or expertise, closet alcoholic spouse beaters [sic], inexperienced leaders who solely know the best way to lie to maintain favor with the Trump falseness…,” Younger contends. The legend musician goes on to ponder as to how precisely we elected “these creeps who don’t have any backbone, no values, no conscience, no solution to save the USA.”
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From there, Younger wonders how Trump really intends to “Make America Nice Once more” when he’s actively “making an attempt to show our cities into battlegrounds so he can cancel elections with marshal [sic] legislation and escape all accountability.”
It’s all very a lot in step with Younger’s different rallying cries towards the president. Generally these protests come within the type of music/music movies, together with the latest “as time explodes” and “Massive Crime.” Different instances, his anger takes the type of different letters and statements, together with inviting Trump to his 2025 summer time tour “if there may be not martial legislation by then,” or just telling the president “I’m not fearful of you. Neither are the remainder of us.” This previous fall, Younger even pulled his music from Amazon as a result of “[Jeff] Bezos helps this authorities, it doesn’t assist you or me.”
For all his anger and vitriol, although, Younger did finish the brief however sturdy letter with one thing genuinely inspiring and hopeful: “Stand up. Peacefully in thousands and thousands. Use your love of life, your love of each other…”
Learn Younger’s full letter right here. Under, revisit the particularly stirring “Massive Crime.”
