Young's manager said that the singer 2016 Neil Young denounces Donald Trump's use of 'Rockin' in the Free World'

Neil Young is not pleased with The Donald.

Before his quixotic speech declaring his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump entered the lobby of his Trump Tower office building in Manhattan Tuesday to Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”


Apparently, the nascent Trump campaign didn’t follow proper legal procedures.

Elliot Roberts, Young’s longtime manager, told Mother Jones in a statement that Trump’s use of the song was not cleared by the artist.

“Donald Trump’s use of ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ was not authorized,” Roberts said, adding for good measure, “Mr. Young is a longtime supporter of Bernie Sanders.”

The song was an odd choice for a Republican campaign. Released in 1989, Young’s lyrics touch on downtrodden and impoverished Americans disaffected after the election of Ronald Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, to the presidency in 1988.

“We got a thousand points of light, for the homeless man,” Young sings, parodying Bush’s famous saying.

“We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand. We got department stores and toilet paper, styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer.”