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Bruce Springsteen hates Donald Trump. In different information, water is moist.
Last week, The Boss kicked off his “Land of Hopes & Dreams Tour” in Manchester, England, by raging in opposition to our forty seventh president.
“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treacherous government,” he stated onstage about Jill and Joe Biden.
I child, of course.
Bruce Springsteen launched an EP, recorded at a current tour stop in Manchester, England, the place he ranted in opposition to Donald Trump.
“They are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent,” Springsteen continued. “They’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators.”
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How amusing. Imagine having so many electrifying hits and so many followers of so many political stripes — and opting to play bombs from your Trump Derangement Syndrome catalog.
Why carry out “Jungleland” for the adoring lots when you may play the soliloquy “Orange Man Bad” for your self?
Springsteen and President Obama have long been buddies and even did a podcast collectively. Getty Images
And then, voila, on Wednesday he went and dropped an precise TDS EP, “Land of Hopes and Dreams.” It options 4 dwell songs plus his Manchester Trump condemnation.
How stunningly courageous to lob missiles on the president from England, a nation actually jailing people over social media posts. But by no means thoughts all that.
As WFAN producer Al Dukes — a self-described “huge fan” of Springsteen — famous on X, the singer wouldn’t dare get up on stage within the United States and take valuable minutes from a efficiency with an anti-Trump rant, as a result of he’d get booed back to the swamps of Jersey.
Bruce Springsteen endorsed Kamala Harris in a video and in addition performed one of her marketing campaign rallies. Kamala Harris/ YouTube
Springsteen has long been a slobbering sycophant for anybody with the letter D subsequent to their title. After sucking up to Obama for years, he threw his help behind the incompetent Kamala Harris and was on the roster of clueless celebrities who carried out or spoke at her rallies.
But he doesn’t often do political messaging on stage for paying prospects, which is a sound coverage.
It’s additionally one which’s saved me, a righty who has all the time had to separate the artists from the artwork, coming back. Born and raised close to the Jersey Shore — Springsteen’s primordial soup — I used to be solely 7 after I first noticed him dwell. Since then, I’ve given The Boss more money than I need to admit. There’s been many concert events, albums and live performance albums.
While dwelling lavishly on his tony Colts Neck unfold, the long-lasting singer continues to be recognized for popping into native bars and figuring out at crappy chain gyms.
Back in October, Springsteen carried out during a Kamala Harris rally. AFP through Getty Images
Yet he’s clearly not talking with actual people on these subject journeys.
His get together policed speech, glorified identification politics and let scores of criminals into the nation. Voters have rejected the elitism he really champions underneath his blue-collar costume.
Enough with the A-listers preaching to us little people from their non-public jets and mansions, they stated.
Perhaps Springsteen is simply too busy texting Obama, however he’s failed to discover that even his beloved Garden State has more and more change into crimson.
Harris beat Trump by solely 5 factors — a whopping 10-point drop from Biden’s victory in 2020.
Donald Trump responded to Springsteen’s screed with this video of him hitting a golf ball… Donald Trump/ X
…which then appeared to bean Springsteen on the back, toppling. Donald Trump/ X
The Democrats long in the past deserted the American staff of Springsteen lyrics like highway kill, and nonetheless view them as vile, pungent creatures, not beneficial constituents.
Yet The Boss continues to be carrying water for the get together that has subverted democracy for the final three presidential elections — a get together that propped up a decaying outdated man so a shadow administration might govern.
And he needs to lecture the aspect that stated No to all that?
Spare me all of the peace, love and inclusion.
A man who by no means did a lick of labor however constructed his whole profession on the lore of the grizzled working man, Springsteen stays stunningly out of contact with the temperature of the nation.
Obama offered the singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. AFP through Getty Images
He claims to be for the common man, however he’s hopelessly partisan. Just ask poor outdated unhappy superfan Chris Christie, who begged for his idol’s love for years however was all the time rebuffed — and skewered — by Springsteen as a result of of get together affiliation.
Meanwhile, Trump — a man not blessed with the reward of restraint — of course took the bait.
The president unloaded on X, writing, “I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. 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.”
Bruce Springsteen is a steadfast supporter of all issues Democrat, however he’s significantly close with Obama. Getty Images
Then he shared a video of himself swinging a membership and the ball showing to hit Springsteen on the back and knock him over.
It was unpresidential … but additionally humorous. And, unintentionally, a nod to how ridiculous this bonfire of the boomer egos really is.
Next time, Bruce, spare us the lecture. Stick to the hits.
