Donald Trump returned to rocker Bruce Springsteen on Friday to cast insults on social media and chase their physical appearance, using his familiar approach to dealing with people he hates.
The US president was angry at being dropped and criticized by a rock and roll icon in one of his recent concerts, and accused the boss of a “very overrated” and “untalented man.”
“I think that the highly overrated Bruce Springsteen is going abroad to talk badly about the US president,” Trump writes about the true society. “I didn't like him, I didn't like his music or his radical left politics, and importantly, he's not a talented guy.”
He accused Springsteen of being “a forceful and uncomfortable jerk” and “as stupid as a rock,” and focused on his appearance.
“This dry 'pruning' in the locker (all his skin atrophy!) should leave his mouth closed until he returns to the country,” the president wrote.
“Then we're all going to see what it will happen to him!”
The issue of Trump for Springsteen came into being earlier this week after the artist issued harsh remarks to the president, and after Trump said he believed Trump was “inappropriate” in his oval office.
While introducing him and the E Street Band's Song Hopes and Dreams, Springsteen, “In my home, in America I love, in America I wrote, was a beacon of hope and freedom for 250 years, but now in the hands of a corrupt, indifferent, discordant administration.”
“Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiments to stand up with us, raise your voice against authoritarianism and make your freedom ring out,” he told the crowd in Manchester, England.
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He didn't stop there. All night he sprinkled the show with criticism of Trump and his administration.
“The last check on power after government checks and balances fail is you and me. It is a coalition of people around a common value system, and is now all that exists between democracy and authoritarianism.
Before running the ruins of my city, he delivered a longer monologue.
“In America, they are persecuting people by using their right to free speech and voicing dissent. This is happening now… In America, the wealthiest men are happy to abandon the poorest children in the world to illness and death. This is happening now,” he said.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform on the first night of their “The Land of Hopes and Dreams” tour at Co-Op Live, held in Manchester, England on May 14, 2025.
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He delves into the issue of Trump's administration inflicting pain on “loyal” American workers, trampling on established civil rights and shaking hands with dictators to create enemies of their celebrity allies.
“They are abandoning our great allies and keeping an eye on those struggling for freedom, along with dictators. They are reimbursing American universities that do not succumb to their ideological demands,” he said to the packed auditorium.
Springsteen has long been close friends with Barack and Michelle Obama after forming close ties during Obama's first presidential election in 2008.
As USA Today points out, Trump called the name of the American singer who was born at a campaign rally in Springsteen's home state in New Jersey last year.
“I love this Saturday evening. Is there anything better than a Trump rally?” Trump said from that stage. “If some of these wakkos came, these liberal singers, they'd actually vote for me. They'd all vote for me. I know like Bruce Springsteen. There's a much bigger crowd than Bruce Springsteen.”
He wasn't the only musician who caused anger from Trump on Friday. He also tried to revive his feud with Taylor Swift.
“I said, 'I hate Taylor Swift' and she said 'It's not hot anymore' so anyone noticed? “, Trump wrote.
– Using the Rachel Goodman file from Global News
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