Tom Morello faces conservative backlash after NYC anti-ICE performance
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Musician Tom Morello faced backlash from conservatives after performing to crowds at New York’s Hands off protest at Federal Plaza in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The guitarist, known for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, sang Woodie Guthrie’s song “This Land is Your Land” with the following lyrics: “In the city squares, in the shadow of the bell tower, near the charity office, I see my people. Some are falling apart and all are wondering if this land is still built for you and me.”
A cheering crowd carrying signs reading “Hands off New York” and “ICE is illegal” sang along with the 61-year-old.
“My mom and I lived at 142nd and Riverside a long time ago,” Morello told the crowd. Rolling stone. “My brothers, if there is one thing I have learned in all the years since then, it is this: If it looks like fascism, if it looks like fascism, if it dresses like fascism, if it talks like fascism, if it kills like fascism and if it lies like fascism, then, my brothers, it is anathema to fascism.”
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Tom Morello sang “This Land is Your Land” at an ICE protest in New York on Tuesday. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
He also called the Trump administration an “authoritarian clown show” and called for a “mass movement of peaceful anti-fascist crime fighters.”
A video of Morello singing sent to x It received many negative comments.
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One person wrote, while another said: “Very apt word here haha. Like a communist circus clown.” “The despicable Tom Morello wants Americans killed by illegal aliens and trillions of dollars spent on them. For this guy.”
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A third person said: “So now he’s raging at the machine he’s pretending to be raging at… does he know?” another said: “Making money off America’s collapse.”
Tom Morello at the No Kings protest in Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
“This is truly pathetic. Tom Morello is a burned-out loser trying to stay in the spotlight,” a fifth wrote. I’ll bet every terrorist Gen Z in the crowd had no idea who he was or what he really stood for. “It’s very sad to see what’s happening to our culture.”
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It received great support, but on Instagram.
“Thank you Tom Morello and New York! Thank you for your support of immigrants,” one commenter wrote. “One of my favorites, Woody Guthrie, singing. Great lyrics. Keep up the good work. We will finally derail the authoritarian train of Trump and his friends and put the country on a better path toward justice for citizens and immigrants alike.”
Tom Morello performed with Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden on Monday. (Taylor Hill/WireImage)
“thanks tom! Great message!” another said, and a third wrote: “The song represents us, the people you don’t know – yes that’s our soul. Thank you for sharing.”
“Keep singing, keep protesting!” another insisted, while a fifth said: “This is beautiful.”
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Morello also performed at Madison Square Garden on Monday night alongside President Donald Trump critic Bruce Springsteen.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Morello for comment.
