Celebrities Hold Three-Hour New York Concert Criticizing Trump Administration Policies

A three-hour concert titled 'Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment' took place in New York City. Jane Fonda and the Committee for the First Amendment hosted the event, which was streamed on multiple left-wing YouTube channels and aired on C-SPAN. Bette Midler performed a version of Woody Guthrie's 'All You Fascists Bound to Lose' at the concert.

The 80-year-old actress altered lyrics to include references to ICE enforcement, the Jeffrey Epstein files, and claims that Republicans are protecting pedophiles. Joy Reid addressed the audience and stated that Brendan Carr wrote the blueprint to dismantle the FCC and Project 2025 and is now running it.

She also said Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, Terry Moran, Scott Pelley, Jim Acosta, Karen Attiah, and herself were fired for standing up to the administration, adding that she was fired for speaking out against the genocide.

Robert De Niro told attendees he cannot love a country led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. He compared loving America under Trump to an abused spouse loving their abuser and led a 'Go f--k yourself' chant directed at President Trump. Ms.

U.S. law. She has been protesting outside the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. About 40 people participated in the performance.

Jane Fonda attended the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026. Robert De Niro attended the opening of the Nobu hotel at Via Veneto in Rome on Nov. 6, 2025.

Fox News reported that the concert was organized as a counter-program to President Trump's UFC event on the White House lawn.