whose tour will bring him through Pennsylvania<\/a>, also released \u201cStreets of Minneapolis\u201d in January. Springsteen sings about ICE and \u201cKing Trump\u2019s private army from the DHS,\u201d in the song. <\/p>\nThe singer made headlines last year when he spoke out against Trump and even released a surprise EP featuring six-tracks recorded in Manchester, England on May 14, 2025. Four of the tracks are songs. Two of the tracks are the speeches that Springsteen delivered to his audience about Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to be in Manchester and back in the UK,\u201d Springsteen told the crowd during his first show on last Wednesday. \u201cWelcome to the Land of Hope and Dreams Tour. The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll in dangerous times.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that is when Springsteen really got into it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my home, the America I love, the America I\u2019ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,\u201d he said. \u201cTonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump followed that by appearing to threaten Springsteen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about President of the United States,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cNever liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he\u2019s not a talented guy \u2014 Just a push, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I wasn\u2019t elected, it would have been GONE by now!\u201d he continued. \u201cSleepy Joe didn\u2019t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is \u2018dumb as a rock,\u2019 and couldn\u2019t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out \u2018prune\u2019 of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that\u2019s just \u2018standard fare.\u2019 Then we\u2019ll all see how it goes for him!\u201d<\/p>\n
That did not deter Springsteen from speaking out once more on Trump days later.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country\u2019s democracy, and they are too important to ignore,\u201d Springsteen told the crowd at his concert last year. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn my home, they\u2019re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s happening now. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world\u2019s poorest children to sickness and death. That\u2019s happening now. In my country, they\u2019re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are removing residents off American street without due process of law and deploying them to foreign detention centers as prisoners,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s happening now. The majority of our elected representatives have utterly failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump followed that up with a post calling for a \u201cmajor investigation\u201d into Springsteen, Beyonce, Oprah, Bono and Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cHOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cWHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN\u2019T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCE? \u2026 AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to call for a major investigation into this matter,\u201d he continued. \u201cCandidates aren\u2019t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT\u2019S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic \u2018entertainers,\u2019 this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.\u201d<\/p>\n
It does not appear that the investigation has taken place, but the two still clearly have no love for one another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no secret that Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump are not on friendly terms. The singer has called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-482422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}