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Thu 23 October 2025 18:03, UK
Bruce Springsteen has said “all hell is breaking loose” in the United States under the second term of Donald Trump.
During the past weekend, over seven million disgruntled Americans took to the streets in all 50 states to make their voices known against the Trump administration.
On October 22nd, Springsteen referenced these protests when he appeared as a special guest at the American Film Institute Opening Night Gala for an event celebrating his forthcoming biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere, which arrives in cinemas on October 24th.
After the credits rolled on the movie, which stars Jeremy Allen White as a young Springsteen while he made Nebraska, ‘The Boss’ took to the stage at the TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles to perform two acoustic songs and address the state of the US.
“Outside, all hell is breaking loose in the United States,” Springsteen said at the event, according to USA Today. He added, “For 250 years around the world, despite all the faults that we’ve had, the United States has served as a beacon of democracy and hope and freedom.”
Springsteen also told those in attendance that despite how “terribly damaged America has been recently, that country and those ideals remain worth fighting for”.
Before playing ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’, Springsteen highlighted the No Kings protests against Trump by stating the song is “a prayer for America, our community and no kings”.
During his summer tour in the UK and Europe, Springsteen delivered a rallying cry each night to the crowd while introducing ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’. At every show, he told those in the audience, “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.”
This led to Trump retaliating to his on-stage remarks in Manchester on the opening night of the tour by launching into a rant on Truth Social. He called Springsteen “highly overrated” before adding, “Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country.”
Trump also threatened Springsteen, writing, “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.”
Despite Trump’s threat, Springsteen continued to deliver the same passionate speech at each of his summer shows across the continent.
In an interview with Time last month, Springsteen responded to Trump’s attack, stating, “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me.” He also said of the politician, “He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
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