To very little surprise, Donald Trump responded to Bruce Springsteen’s scathing take on his presidency earlier this week, as the president labeled him a “dried out prune of a rocker.”
At the start a European tour earlier this week, Springsteen lashed out at the president, telling a concert crowd in Manchester, England that Trump was leading “a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
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“Tonight, 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,” Springsteen said.
In the midst of his tour of the Middle East, Trump responded on his social media platform Truth Social this morning.
“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” he wrote. “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.”
Trump also seemed irked that Springsteen made the comments outside of the United States, and seemed to suggest that there would be a backlash if he made the comments here.
“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.’ Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”
Springsteen endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, Joe Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
On the tour, he said, “The last check on power after the checks and balances have failed, are the people, you and me. It’s in the union of people around a common set of values — now that’s all that stands between democracy and authoritarianism.”
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