Aging left-wing rocker Neil Young has released a new anti-Trump protest song attacking President Donald Trump’s “Make America Safe Again” campaign, even as crime in Washington, D.C. has dropped significantly under Trump’s crackdown.
The song, titled “Big Crime,” portrays Trump as a “fascist” and denounces his use of the National Guard to restore order in the nation’s capital. Young sings, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House,” before calling Trump a criminal and blasting soldiers on city streets. The track also mocks Trump’s iconic slogan with the line, “No more great again.”
Young reportedly performed the song live at a concert in Chicago, framing Trump’s deployment of federal forces as authoritarian. Yet the claims in his song stand in sharp contrast to reality on the ground. Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, publicly thanked Trump this week for his efforts, crediting the National Guard and law enforcement surge with reducing crime and making “neighborhoods feel safer.”
The 79-year-old rocker has made attacking Trump a recurring theme. Earlier this year, Young went so far as to post “86/47” on his website, a veiled reference to assassinating the 45th and 47th president. He previously aligned himself with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during their “Oligarchy Tour,” and claimed Trump would jail him for his opposition.
Despite his rhetoric, crime statistics and local leadership confirm Trump’s crackdown has delivered real results for D.C. residents. For Young, however, facts appear to matter less than feeding his decades-long protest persona.
