Neil Young offers the offer of peace to Trump … but includes 1 important
Neil Young has just extended President Donald Trump, the olive branch.
In a pointed message published on Monday on its website, the rock icon invited the president to attend one of his concerts and show people who can “meet and defend US values.”
However, Young’s invitation was not free of criticism.
“Our country and our way of life, what our parents and theirs fought, is now threatened by our government,” wrote the artist “Ohio.” “This is not what we vote. This is our new reality.
“Our government is out of control, it does not defend us. It can defend US values this summer, for our children and their own.”
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When Young offered Trump the opportunity to find common land, he came with a little attitude.
“When the United States visits this summer, if there is no martial law by then, which would make it impossible, we join and defend US values,” he wrote.
“We will not do a political show. We will interpret the music we love so that we all enjoy together. President Trump are invited. Come and listen to our music as you did for decades.”
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Long before his political disputes, Trump told Rolling Stone that he was a fan of Young’s music and had seen him play live several times.
“I have sometimes known it, and it is an excellent guy,” said the president in 2008.
But in recent years, Young has been an open critic of the commander in chief.
After Trump’s dispute with Bruce Springsteen intensified last month, Young told him that “he stopped thinking about what the rockers say” and “think of saving the United States from the disaster you made.”