‘Dumb as a rock’: Trump fires again at ‘obnoxious jerk’ Bruce Springsteen – Nationwide
Donald Trump fired again at rocker Bruce Springsteen on Friday, utilizing his acquainted strategy to coping with folks he doesn’t like — hurling insults on social media and going after their bodily look.
The president of america, upset with being name-dropped and criticized by the rock and roll icon at one in every of his current concert events, bashed The Boss as “Extremely Overrated” and “not a gifted man.”
“I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Overseas Nation to talk badly concerning the President of america,” Trump wrote on Fact Social. “By no means appreciated him, by no means appreciated his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a gifted man.”
He went on to accuse Springsteen of being a “pushy, obnoxious JERK” and “dumb as a rock,” earlier than zeroing in on his look.
“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his pores and skin is all atrophied!) should KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT till he will get again into the Nation,” the president wrote, seeming to threaten Springsteen with penalties when he returns to U.S. soil.
“Then we’ll all see the way it goes for him!”
Trump’s concern with Springsteen stems from earlier this week, after the artist issued some scathing remarks for the president, saying he believes Trump is “unfit” for the Oval Workplace.
Whereas introducing his and the E Road Band’s track Land of Hopes and Desires, after which his present tour is known as, the 75-year-old Springsteen mentioned, “In my residence, the America I really like, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is at present within the fingers of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
“Tonight, we ask all who consider in democracy and the perfect of our American experiment to rise with us, elevate your voices in opposition to authoritarianism and let freedom ring,” he informed the group in Manchester, England.
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He didn’t cease there; all through the night time, he sprinkled the present with criticism of Trump and his administration.
Earlier than taking part in Home of a Thousand Guitars, he mentioned: “The final examine on energy after the checks and balances of presidency have failed are the folks, you and me. It’s within the union of individuals round a typical set of values now that’s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. So on the finish of the day, all we’ve bought is one another.”
Earlier than performing My Metropolis of Ruins, he delivered an extended monologue:
“In America, they’re persecuting folks for utilizing their proper to free speech and voicing their dissent. That is occurring now… in America, the richest males are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest kids to illness and dying. That is occurring now,” he mentioned.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Road Band carry out through the first night time of his ‘The Land of Hopes and Desires’ tour at Co-op Stay on Might 14, 2025 in Manchester, England.
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He drilled down on his points with Trump’s administration inflicting ache on “loyal” American employees, trampling over entrenched civil rights and making enemies of storied allies whereas shaking fingers with dictators.
“They’re abandoning our nice allies and siding with dictators in opposition to these struggling for his or her freedom. They’re defunding American universities that gained’t bow all the way down to their ideological calls for,” he mentioned to a packed auditorium.
Springsteen has lengthy been shut associates with Barack and Michelle Obama, after forming shut ties throughout Obama’s first presidential marketing campaign in 2008.
As USA Immediately notes, Trump invoked the Born in the usA. singer’s title at a marketing campaign rally in Springsteen’s residence state of New Jersey final yr.
“I really like these Saturday evenings. Is there something higher than a Trump rally?” Trump mentioned from the stage on the time. “If a few of these wackos got here alongside, you realize, these liberal singers, they’d really vote for me. You recognize they’d all vote for me. You recognize, like Bruce Springsteen. We’ve a a lot larger crowd than Bruce Springsteen. Proper?”
Springsteen wasn’t the one musician to spark ire from Trump on Friday; he additionally tried to resurrect his feud with Taylor Swift, going after the billionaire pop star in a Fact Social put up simply minutes earlier than his Springsteen missive.
“Has anybody seen that, since I mentioned ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s now not ‘HOT?’” Trump wrote.
— With information from World Information’ Rachel Goodman
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