{"id":631309,"date":"2026-04-27T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631309\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:08:07","slug":"springsteen-offers-prayer-of-thanks-trump-was-uninjured-in-whcd-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631309\/","title":{"rendered":"Springsteen Offers &#8220;Prayer of Thanks&#8221; Trump Was Uninjured in WHCD Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/bruce-springsteen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> began his concert in Austin on Sunday night by acknowledging Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/trump-evacuated-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">assassination attempt<\/a> at the White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner and offering a \u201cprayer of thanks that our President, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending, was injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:bruce-springsteen*whca-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fbruce-springsteen-tickets%2Fperformer%2F5984\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Bruce Springsteen Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can disagree. We can be critical of those in power, and we can peacefully fight for our beliefs, but there is no place in any way, shape, or form for political violence of any kind in our beloved United States,\u201d Springsteen continued.<\/p>\n<p>Springsteen has framed his ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/bruce-springsteen-minneapolis-tour-kickoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cLand of Hope and Dreams Tour\u201d<\/a> as a \u201ccelebration and defense of our American ideals, our democracy, our Constitution,\u201d and has regularly used his opening remarks to forcefully rebuke Trump\u2019s actions during his second term.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bruce Springsteen addressed last nights White House Correspondents Dinner shooting in his opening speech tonight in Austin. He toned back his original scathing message of the President. <\/p>\n<p>Good on you, Bruce. <\/p>\n<p>Video: Richard Schwartz <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1oWtpOEyI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/G1oWtpOEyI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bruce Springsteen: Blog It All Night (@blogitallnight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blogitallnight\/status\/2048571051752227141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen began his concert in Austin on Sunday night by acknowledging Saturday\u2019s assassination attempt at the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-631309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}