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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeil Young Pens Open Letter to Donald Trump: 'You Are a Disgrace to My Country'
Neil Young Pens Open Letter to Donald Trump: You Are a Disgrace to My Country
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-letter-trump-954835/
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.
Near the end of the letter, Young comes very close to endorsing Bernie Sanders. One of your opponents has the answers I like, he writes. He is aiming at preserving our childrens future directly. He is not popular with the Democratic establishment because, unlike all the other candidates, he is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earths Climate Crisis, the end of the world as we know it. He is truly fighting for the USA. His initials are BS. Not his policies.
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.
Near the end of the letter, Young comes very close to endorsing Bernie Sanders. One of your opponents has the answers I like, he writes. He is aiming at preserving our childrens future directly. He is not popular with the Democratic establishment because, unlike all the other candidates, he is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earths Climate Crisis, the end of the world as we know it. He is truly fighting for the USA. His initials are BS. Not his policies.
I know The Rolling Stones have recently called out Twitler for using their songs, too
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Neil Young Pens Open Letter to Donald Trump: 'You Are a Disgrace to My Country' (Original Post)
Roland99
Feb 2020
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Karadeniz
(22,552 posts)1. There's no recourse? I thought songs had owners.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)2. Guess it depends upon who owns the rights and if they wanna pursue
Or perhaps the campaign paid for the rights?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)3. Trump is not the only disgrace.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)4. He should write a song.
live love laugh
(13,123 posts)5. ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️