{"id":207565,"date":"2020-02-23T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/rock-icon-neil-young-hits-trump-where-it-hurts-in-searing-attack\/"},"modified":"2020-02-23T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T03:55:00","slug":"rock-icon-neil-young-hits-trump-where-it-hurts-in-searing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/rock-icon-neil-young-hits-trump-where-it-hurts-in-searing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Icon Neil Young Hits Trump Where It Hurts In Searing Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\"4\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" data-type=\"iframe\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"Bdw(0) My(0) Mx(a) D(b) W(100%) H(100%) StretchedBox canvas-atom Mt(14px)--sm Mb(0)--sm\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/delivery.vidible.tv\/htmlembed\/pid=5977b96f955a317becf45788\/5977b7a758415c179641bb35.html?m.playback=autoplay&amp;vid=5e29f579e98ab56528f6f6d6,5db1da6de98ab51ad9e3567c,5d5ad28dd21f1a5c14e6c645,5744fda8e4b0afe938a73a10&amp;m.disable_moat=1\" width=\"100%\" data-reactid=\"6\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"Rock icon &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/neil-young&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;Neil Young&lt;\/a&gt; slammed President &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;Donald Trump&lt;\/a&gt;, threw his support behind Sen. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/bernie-sanders&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;Bernie Sanders&lt;\/a&gt; (I-Vt.) and warned Republicans they were being lied to.&amp;nbsp;\" data-reactid=\"7\">Rock icon Neil Young slammed President Donald Trump, threw his support behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and warned Republicans they were being lied to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"Young,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/neil-young-citizen-message-to-americans_n_5e2ab742c5b67d8874afcad1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;a newly minted U.S. citizen,&lt;\/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;described Trump as \u201ca disgrace to my country\u201d in an &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/2\/article?id=Viewpoint-An-Open-Letter-To-Donald-J-Trump&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;open letter&lt;\/a&gt; posted on his website.&amp;nbsp;He called out Trump for his&amp;nbsp;\u201cunforgivable\u201d attacks on the environment and U.S. allies, then unfavorably compared him to former President Barack Obama \u2015 not just as a leader, but as a person.&amp;nbsp;\" data-reactid=\"8\">Young,\u00a0a newly minted U.S. citizen,\u00a0described Trump as \u201ca disgrace to my country\u201d in an open letter posted on his website.\u00a0He called out Trump for his\u00a0\u201cunforgivable\u201d attacks on the environment and U.S. allies, then unfavorably compared him to former President Barack Obama \u2015 not just as a leader, but as a person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"\u201cOur first black president was a better man than you are,\u201d Young wrote.\" data-reactid=\"9\">\u201cOur first black president was a better man than you are,\u201d Young wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"That\u2019s a famous sore spot for Trump, who is &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/07\/politics\/trump-obama-obsession-foreign-policy\/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;obsessive&lt;\/a&gt; about his &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/02\/18\/why-trump-cant-stop-talking-about-obama\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot;&gt;predecessor&lt;\/a&gt;. Prior to the 2016 election, Trump was a leader of the racist birther movement that falsely claimed Obama was not a natural-born citizen. Since becoming president, Trump has continued to attack Obama and attempted to compare his presidency to the Obama administration.&amp;nbsp;\" data-reactid=\"10\">That\u2019s a famous sore spot for Trump, who is obsessive about his predecessor. Prior to the 2016 election, Trump was a leader of the racist birther movement that falsely claimed Obama was not a natural-born citizen. Since becoming president, Trump has continued to attack Obama and attempted to compare his presidency to the Obama administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"But Young said any success Trump could claim about the economy was \u201cwhat you inherited almost 4 years ago.\u201d\" data-reactid=\"11\">But Young said any success Trump could claim about the economy was \u201cwhat you inherited almost 4 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"The rocker also reached out to Trump voters.&amp;nbsp;\" data-reactid=\"12\">The rocker also reached out to Trump voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"\u201cI support their right to express themselves, although they have been lied to, and in many cases believed the lies,\u201d Young wrote.&amp;nbsp;\u201cThey are true Americans. I have their back.\u201d\" data-reactid=\"13\">\u201cI support their right to express themselves, although they have been lied to, and in many cases believed the lies,\u201d Young wrote.\u00a0\u201cThey are true Americans. I have their back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"Young didn\u2019t mention Sanders explicitly, but detailed the presidential candidate\u2019s positions and said, \u201cHis initials are BS. Not his policies.\u201d&amp;nbsp;\" data-reactid=\"14\">Young didn\u2019t mention Sanders explicitly, but detailed the presidential candidate\u2019s positions and said, \u201cHis initials are BS. Not his policies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"And in a final dig at the president, Young added: \u201cWe are going to vote you out and Make America Great Again.\u201d\" data-reactid=\"15\">And in a final dig at the president, Young added: \u201cWe are going to vote you out and Make America Great Again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"The two-time Rock &amp;amp; Roll Hall of Famer \u2015 as both a solo artist and a member of Buffalo Springfield \u2015 ended his essay with a link to his 2017 song, \u201cChildren Of Destiny,\u201d which includes the chorus:&amp;nbsp;\" data-reactid=\"16\">The two-time Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer \u2015 as both a solo artist and a member of Buffalo Springfield \u2015 ended his essay with a link to his 2017 song, \u201cChildren Of Destiny,\u201d which includes the chorus:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"canvas-blockquote M(30px) Pstart(20px) C($c-fuji-grey-h) Fs(i) Bdstartc($c-fuji-grey-e) Bdstarts(s) Bdstartw(2px) canvas-atom\" cite=\"\" data-type=\"blockquote\" data-reactid=\"17\">\n<p><em>Stand up for what you believe<\/em><br \/><em>Resist the \u2018powers that be\u2019<\/em><br \/><em>Preserve the ways of democracy<\/em><br \/><em>So the children can be free<\/em><br \/><em>The children of destiny<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" type=\"text\" content=\"&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/neil-young-donald-trump-open-letter_n_5e4df6a8c5b630e74c50189f?ncid=yhpf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Continue reading on HuffPost&lt;\/a&gt;\" data-reactid=\"20\">Continue reading on HuffPost<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/rock-icon-neil-young-hits-092353532.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rock icon Neil Young slammed President Donald Trump, threw his support behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and warned Republicans they were being lied to.\u00a0 Young,\u00a0a newly minted U.S. citizen,\u00a0described Trump as \u201ca disgrace to my country\u201d in an open letter posted on his website.\u00a0He called out Trump for his\u00a0\u201cunforgivable\u201d attacks on the environment and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}