Neil Young pledges to stop buying Verizon and Apple products over Donald Trump support
Neil Young has pledged to stop buying products from Verizon and Apple, due to their supposed support of the Donald Trump regime.
Young’s latest message comes days after he called for fans to stop using Amazon products due to Jeff Bezos’s links to the Trump administration and pulled his music from the platform.
He wrote on his website last week, the Neil Young Archives, “My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos. My position is unfortunately harmful to my record company in the short term but I think the message I am sending is important and clear.”
Now, in a new post on the same site, Young has said that he refuses to give another penny of his money to Verizon and Apple, which means finding another provider for his flip phone.
He wrote, “Verizon is a supporter of Trump, with big $. What can I do? I’m checking with our office to see if I can get a T-Mobile flip phone. T-Mobile is not a supporter of the Trump fascist regime.”
The singer-songwriter then explained, “I am trying to not support the companies that support the regime with huge donations, just to cover their own asses, while people are being shot in the streets of America, not just Minnesota, America.”
Young acknowledged that he was writing his message on an Apple computer, adding, “I have to stop and re-access. No more upgrades! That feeds Apple, Apple supports ‘The Regime’.”
After a call with his business manager, Young said he would keep the computer as it was already paid for, but would not pay for any future upgrades.
Young added of Tim Cook’s links to the Trump administration, “Tim Cook, the CEO, falling over backwards to support the regime! He was at the Melania premiere at the White House just the other night, kissing ass. Yikes! What a world.”
He concluded the post by writing, “I have to re-asses everything I am doing. I will sue Apple if my computer doesn’t work without the new costly upgrade. What about Warner Brothers?”
Young’s latest post coincides with his peer Bruce Springsteen’s scathing takedown of ICE’s conduct in Minneapolis, which killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good, on his new single ‘Streets of Minneapolis’.
On the track, ‘The Boss’ obliterates the Trump regime and sings, “A city aflame fought fire and ice, ‘Neath an occupier’s boots, King Trump’s private army from the DHS, Guns belted to their coats, Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law, Or so their story goes.”
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