Bruce Springsteen Is Not Worried About Losing MAGA Fans for Torching Trump: 'The Blowback Is Just Part of It'
Kicking off his tour in Minneapolis, the music legend accused Trump of leading a "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration".
This morning, in the wake of his last night’s address on the war in Iran and its economic fallout, he responded predictably. That was quick.
Trump’s latest rant comes two days after Springsteen once again trashed the president at his Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour opener in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
“Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts, like the full history of the brutality of slavery. You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can’t handle the truth. This is happening now,” he said onstage. “While working Americans struggle, our president and his family enrich themselves by billions of dollars trading on the people’s office in corruption unmatched in American history.”
Springsteen has not responded to Trump’s post, though he did preemptively share his stance on the tour’s potential for conflict with the President and his supporters in an interview with the Minnesota Star Tribune. “I don’t worry about it,” Springsteen said. “My job is very simple: I do what I want to do, I say what I want to say and then people get to say what they want to say about it. Those are the rules of my game. That’s fine with me. I don’t worry about if you’re going to lose this part of your audience. I’ve always had a feeling about the position we play culturally, and I’m still deeply committed to that idea of the band. The blowback is just part of it. I’m ready for all that.”
He’ll be visiting cities such as Portland, LA, San Francisco, Austin, New York and Washington D.C. “in celebration and in defense of America”.
“Our American Constitution and our sacred American dream, all of which are under attack by our wannabe king and his rogue government in Washington DC. Everyone, regardless of where you stand or what you believe in is welcome,” Springsteen explained previously.
Variety reported that Springsteen slammed Trump for waging an “unconstitutional and illegal war”, for “abandoning NATO” and for threatening “our neighbours and our allies”.
He added: “Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts like the full history of the brutality of slavery. You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can’t handle the truth.”
In response, the White House hit back at The Boss by calling him a “loser”, and saying that “he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain”.
During a new interview with the Minnesota Star Tribune ahead of his first show in Minneapolis, Springsteen promised that “the tour is going to be political and very topical about what’s going on in the country”.
“The E Street Band is built for hard times. It always was,” he continued. “These are the moments when I think we can be of real value and real worth to the community. These are moments that fill the band with purpose, so I try to fill the set list around those ideas.
