Rock legend Neil Young has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Donald Trump’s political action committee over the president’s use of his 1989 classic “Rockin’ in the Free World” at one of his rallies earlier this month.

Young, in a complaint filed to federal court on Monday, accused the PAC of copyright infringement after the song played just minutes before former NFL coach Jon Gruden introduced Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio.

The rally featured an apparent Trump supporter repeatedly punching a female protester as the president watched and mocked the demonstrator from behind a lectern onstage.

“‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ is a blistering anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric with the harsh realities faced by the poor, homeless and forgotten,” the complaint read. “The lyrics paint vivid street-level portraits — a mother discarding her baby, addicts lost in despair, garbage piling in the shadows of prosperity — while the repeated chorus delivers a savage irony, celebrating freedom that clearly isn’t shared by all.”

It adds, “In short, the Song is the opposite of everything that Donald J. Trump stands for.”

The lawsuit arrives more than six years after the rocker sued Trump’s reelection campaign for using the song, and another, 2003’s “Devil’s Sidewalk,” at a number of rallies and events.

The lawsuit was dismissed later that year after Young reached a settlement with the campaign, which promised not to use the song again without a license and permission from the rocker.

Neil Young speaks at a Farm Aid 2026 press conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia, last month.

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Young has taken issue with Trump’s use of “Rockin’ in the Free World” on several occasions over the past decade and change.

Back in 2016, the Canadian-American rocker slammed Reuters over a “purposely misleading” story earlier that year that suggested he was fine with Trump using the song, stressing in a video that he did not “endorse hate, bigotry, childish name calling, the superficiality of celebrity or ignorance.”

“When I discovered that the candidate first used my song at his campaign launch, my management called his office and immediately requested he stop,” Young wrote in a message alongside the video.

“We thought he had. But now, unfortunately, I understand he is still using it.”