He’s performed for me at my casinos over the years and he just brings it down. “I’ve listened to his music for years and I’ve seen him before that, but I went to the concert where they were honoring Bob Dylan years ago at Madison Square Garden and Neil got up and totally brought the house down. “He’s got something very special,” Trump said of Young in a 2008 Rolling Stone interview. Music rights licensing agreement to use “Rockin’ in the Free World” from ASCAP, which collects licensing fees on behalf of songwriters and music publishers.Įither way, President Trump has been an avowed fan of Young’s music for years. Moreover, Trump’s campaign stated at the time that it had obtained a U.S. Trump, in turn, called Young “a hypocrite” because Young had previously asked Trump to help underwrite Pono, an online high-resolution music service that Young launched in 2014 and shut down in 2017. We are going to vote you out and Make America Great Again.”įor the record, Young first voiced his dismay over Trump’s use of “Rockin’ in the Free World” in 2015, when Trump started using the song at his presidential campaign rallies. He is not popular with the democratic establishment because unlike all the other candidates, he is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earth’s Climate Disaster, the end of the world as we know it. “He is aiming at preserving our children’s future directly. “One of your opponents has the answers I like,” Young writes. Young concludes by letting Trump know exactly which candidate Young is supporting. Remember it is the voice of a tax-paying U.S. “Every time ‘Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World’ or one of my songs is played at your rallies, I hope you hear my voice. That way you could be on stage at a rally every night in front of your fans, if you were any good, and you might be. “Perhaps you could have been a bass player and played in a rock and roll band. “(It) is not a song you can trot out at one of your rallies,” Young writes.

Young, who in 1984 voiced his support for then-President Ronald Reagan, also uses his open letter to take Trump to task for his use of Young’s 1989 song, “Rockin’ in the Free World,” at Trump’s rallies. “The United States of America, my country, is not a green on one of your branded golf courses that you can ride around on and damage so that other players cannot shoot straight.” Our first black president was a better man than you are. Your policies, decisions and short term thinking continue to exacerbate the Climate Crisis. “Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable. economy does not disguise the fact that the numbers today are what you inherited 4 years ago,” Young continues.

As of this writing, Trump has not used his widely read Twitter page to acknowledge or respond to Young’s open letter attacking him.

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