Billy Joel blasts President Donald Trump's 2017 comments about the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally in his documentary 'And So It Goes': 'Nazis are not good people.'

In the second instalment of the new HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the singer reminisced about his decision to take a public stand against the US President, Donald Trump. It all began with Trump’s reaction to the 2017 “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Billy Joel may sing “my silence is my self-defense” on his Billboard Hot 100 No. 37 hit “And So It Goes,” but he’s not interested in remaining quiet about what he considers to be very wrong. The musician is once again condemning Donald Trump’s 2017 speech about the white nationalist’s Unite the Right rally that took place in Charlottesville,

Watching the violence unfold, and hearing then-President Donald Trump say there were “very fine people on both sides”, was the last straw for the musician.

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And So It Goes, Part Two documentary aired on July 25, 2025, wrapping up the two-part retrospective of the iconic musician’s life.

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