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Neil Young has never hidden his contempt for Donald Trump, but now that hes officially an American citizen, hes raising his voice even louder.
You are a disgrace to my country, Young writes in a long, scathing open letter to Trump on his Neil Young Archives website. Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment, and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable.
Our first black president was a better man than you are.
Hes particularly irked by Trumps usage of his song Rockin in the Free World at his rallies. Young has asked him to stop this practice numerous times while acknowledging he has no legal recourse to force him. [It] is not a song you can trot out at one of your rallies, he writes. Perhaps you could have been a bass player and played in a rock & roll band. That way you could have been onstage at a rally every night in front of your fans, if you were any good, and you might be
Every time Rockin in the Free World or one of my songs is played at your rallies, he continues, I hope you hear my voice. Remember it is the voice of a tax-paying U.S. citizen who does not support you. Me.
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