Trump Urges America to Boycott Springsteen

Photo Credit: Bruce Springsteen by Raph_PH / CC by 4.0

Trump’s Thursday morning social media posts focus on his personal grudges once more as he slams Bruce Springsteen and urges a boycott of his concerts.

Thursday mornings, it’s time for Trump to tell his fans who to hate in his Truth Social posts, and this week it’s Bruce Springsteen. The posts came just hours after the president’s Wednesday night speech about the war in Iran—and after Springsteen’s well-timed speech during a performance at a “No Kings” rally in St. Paul, Minnesota.

“MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK,” Trump wrote. “SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.”

Springsteen’s anti-MAGA sentiments are not a recent development. The Boss has been advocating against the president since 2016, telling Rolling Stone that the “Republic is under siege by a moron.” He’s also done plenty of Trump-bashing while on his Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, which he promised would be a political affair.

On the tour’s opening night in Minneapolis, Springsteen made not one but four pointed speeches throughout the three-hour show, and he also played at a “No Kings” rally in St. Paul over the weekend where he shared similar thoughts.

“We are living through some very dark times,” Springsteen told the crowd. “Our American values that have sustained us for 250 years are being challenged as never before. We’ve got our young men and women’s lives at risk in an unconstitutional and illegal war. This is happening now.”

“The richest men in America have abandoned the world’s poorest children through death and disease, through their dismantling of USAID. This is happening now,” he added. “We are abandoning NATO and the world order that’s kept us safe and at global peace for 80 years. […] We threaten our neighbors and our allies, whose sons and daughters have fought alongside us in American wars with the predatory annexation of their land. This is happening now.”

“Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts, like the full history of the brutality of slavery,” Springsteen said. “You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can’t handle the truth. This is happening now.”

The musician went on throughout the set, and needless to say, he struck a nerve with the president. But it’s just the most recent instance of him doing so, having called the Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous” during a show overseas in Manchester last year.

That speech earned him Trump’s ire in the form of yet another Truth Social rant, in which the president called the musician “highly overrated” and “not a talented guy—just a pushy, obnoxious JERK” and “a dried up prune.”