Bruce Springsteen hates Donald Trump. In different information, water is moist.
Final 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, in fact.
“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.”
How amusing. Think about having so many electrifying hits and so many followers of so many political stripes — and opting to play bombs out of your Trump Derangement Syndrome catalog.
Why carry out “Jungleland” for the adoring plenty when you’ll be able to play the soliloquy “Orange Man Bad” for your self?
After which, 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 rustic actually jailing folks over social media posts. However 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 rise up on stage in america and take valuable minutes from a efficiency with an anti-Trump rant, as a result of he’d get booed again to the swamps of Jersey.
Springsteen has lengthy been a slobbering sycophant for anybody with the letter D subsequent to their title. After sucking as much as 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.
However he doesn’t normally do political messaging on stage for paying prospects, which is a sound coverage.
It’s additionally one which’s stored me, a righty who has at all times needed to separate the artists from the artwork, coming again. Born and raised close to the Jersey Shore — Springsteen’s primordial soup — I used to be solely 7 once I first noticed him dwell. Since then, I’ve given The Boss more cash than I wish to admit. There’s been many live shows, albums and live performance albums.
Whereas residing 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.
But he’s clearly not talking with actual folks on these subject journeys.
His social gathering policed speech, glorified id politics and let scores of criminals into the nation. Voters have rejected the elitism he really champions beneath his blue-collar costume.
Sufficient with the A-listers preaching to us little folks from their non-public jets and mansions, they stated.
Maybe Springsteen is just too busy texting Obama, however he’s failed to note that even his beloved Backyard State has more and more grow to be pink.
Harris beat Trump by solely 5 factors — a whopping 10-point drop from Biden’s victory in 2020.
The Democrats way back deserted the American employees of Springsteen lyrics like highway kill, and nonetheless view them as vile, smelly creatures, not precious constituents.
But The Boss continues to be carrying water for the social gathering that has subverted democracy for the final three presidential elections — a celebration that propped up a decaying outdated man so a shadow administration may govern.
And he needs to lecture the facet 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 complete profession on the lore of the grizzled working man, Springsteen stays stunningly out of contact with the temperature of the nation.
He claims to be for the widespread man, however he’s hopelessly partisan. Simply ask poor outdated unhappy superfan Chris Christie, who begged for his idol’s love for years however was at all times rebuffed — and skewered — by Springsteen due to social gathering affiliation.
In the meantime, Trump — a person not blessed with the present of restraint — in fact 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.”
Then he shared a video of himself swinging a membership and the ball showing to hit Springsteen on the again 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.
Subsequent time, Bruce, spare us the lecture. Persist with the hits.
