Neil Young tears down Donald Trump and urges Americans to “rise up” after Minnesota shooting
Neil Young has urged Americans to “rise up” in a new editorial, in reaction to the recent Minnesota ICE shooting.
On January 9th, the musician posted a new op-ed on his website, in which he urged readers to “Wake up, people!”
Young was reacting to an incident that took place on January 7th, when Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was killed in her vehicle by an ICE officer in Minnesota. She was not the target of the ICE operation that was underway, but found herself in the crossfire.
The incident caused uproar all over America, worsened when the president deemed Good “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting,” and insisted she was “shot in self-defense” on Truth Social.
Young joins a long list of celebrities calling ICE and the Trump administration out online in his post, bemoaning “the biggest mess I’ve ever witnessed.”
Young also wrote, “Today the USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes, people with no experience or talent, closet alcoholic wife beaters, inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to keep favor with Trump’s falseness so they can hold their unearned positions in his inept government, a Congress full of Republicans acting like idiots with no conscience.”
He continued, “He has divided us. How did we elect these creeps who have no spin, no values, no conscience, no way to save the USA.”
The post went on, “We need to take Trump at his word. “Make America Great Again. It won’t be easy while he is trying to turn our cities into battlegrounds so he can cancel our elections with marshal law and escape all accountability.”
Young insisted, “Something has to change this. We know what to do. Rise up. Peacefully in millions. Too many innocent people are dying. It’s ICE cold here in America. There was no ICE before Trump. No soldiers in the streets before Trump. Every move he makes is to build instability so he can stay in power.”
The eviscerating polemic ended on a hopeful note, with Young writing, “He knows nothing about love. He does not know you are. Use your love of life, your love of one another, your love of children and theirs and ours.”
Young has been outspoken towards the President of the United States before.
He previously revealed he was worried about not being allowed to re-enter America following his European tour, which concluded in July, due to his criticism of the current regime, writing in a post on his website: “If the fact that I think Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of our great country could stop me from coming back, what does that say for Freedom? I love America and its people and its music and its culture.”
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