{"id":233018,"date":"2026-05-15T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233018\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:22:44","slug":"bruce-springsteen-snubs-chris-christie-at-brooklyn-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Snubs Chris Christie at Brooklyn Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Springsteen<\/a> apparently had no time for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie<\/a> at his Brooklyn concert.<\/p>\n

Video shared via X<\/a> by journalist Mike Ryan showcased an awkward moment during Springsteen and the E Street Band\u2019s Barclays Center show on Thursday, May 14.<\/p>\n

As \u201cThe Boss,\u201d walked through the crowd to shake hands with fans, Christie, 63, stuck out his own hand \u2014 and was seemingly ignored when Springsteen, 76, walked past him. Christie immediately pulled back his hand, shrugged and resumed clapping along with the music.<\/p>\n

Us Weekly has reached out to Christie and Springsteen\u2019s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n

Springsteen and Christie have a somewhat contentious history. The former governor is a self-professed Springsteen super-fan who has boasted of attending more than 100 of the rocker\u2019s concerts over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one is beyond the reach of Bruce,\u201d he once told The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former President Barack Obama connected the two for the first time in November 2012 while Springsteen was riding on Air Force One. During a phone call about Hurricane Sandy, Obama told Christie that Springsteen wanted to speak to him and they had a brief conversation, per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That same month, Springsteen and Christie greeted one another backstage at a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe hugged,\u201d Christie told reporters of his in-person meeting with his musical idol. \u201cHe told me it\u2019s official: we\u2019re friends. I told the president today, actually, that the hug was great and when we got home, there was a lot of weeping because of the hug. And the president asked why. I said, \u2018Well, to be honest, I was the one doing the weeping.’\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Springsteen later poked fun at Christie during the 2013 \u201cBridgegate\u201d scandal. (Christie\u2019s staff was accused of deliberately causing traffic jams near Fort Lee, New Jersey, by ordering the closure of a toll plaza. This political maneuvering was seen as retribution for Fort Lee\u2019s Mayor Mark Sokolich opposing Christie\u2019s administration.)<\/p>\n

Christie was not criminally charged over the \u201cBridgegate\u201d scandal, though many pundits suggested that the controversy eroded support for his ill-fated presidential campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump asked his supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen after the musician kicked off his latest tour. \u201cBad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

At the height of the controversy, Springsteen joined Jimmy Fallon on his Late Night show in 2014 to sing a parody version of \u201cBorn to Run\u201d about \u201cBridgegate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBaby this Bridgegate was just payback \/ It\u2019s a bitch slap to the state Democrats,\u201d Fallon, 51, and Springsteen sang. \u201cWe got to get out while we can \/ We\u2019re stuck in Governor Chris Christie\u2019s Fort Lee-New Jersey traffic jam!\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, Springsteen offered an olive branch to President Donald Trump amid a years-long public feud. During an Austin, Texas concert on April 26, Springsteen lled his audience in a prayer<\/a> after the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe begin tonight with a prayer for our men and women in service overseas, we pray for their safe return,\u201d Springsteen told fans. \u201cWe also send out a prayer of thanks that our president, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending, was injured at last night\u2019s incident at the [White House] press correspondents\u2019 dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He went on, \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<\/p>\n

Suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen<\/a> allegedly opened fire at the Washington Hilton on April 25 while President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other officials from their administration were attending the dinner.<\/p>\n

Allen, 31, was apprehended after injuring a Secret Service agent. He later pleaded not guilty<\/a> to charges of attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen apparently had no time for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at his Brooklyn concert. Video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,191,2538,9,24,63,87],"class_list":["post-233018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-celebrity-news","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}