President Donald Trump asked his supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen after the musician kicked off his latest tour.
“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump, 79, wrote via Truth Social on Tuesday, April 2. “The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election, including the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America.”
The president of the United States then encouraged his supporters to avoid attending Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, which kicked off on Tuesday, March 31.
“Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our Country was DEAD, and now we have the ‘hottest’ Country, by far, anywhere in the World,” Trump shared while referencing former President Joe Biden. “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!! President DJT.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Springsteen’s rep for comment.
Before opening night of his latest tour, the Grammy winner revealed that his upcoming shows are going to be political and “very topical about what’s going on in the country.”
“Minneapolis and St. Paul, that was the place I wanted to begin it, and I wanted to end it in Washington,” he told The Minnesota Star Tribune in an interview published on March 25. “The E Street Band is built for hard times. It always was. 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 setlist around those ideas.”
Springsteen, 76, has been an outspoken critic of Trump ever since The Apprentice alum first ran for president in 2016. Before Trump won that election, the “Born in the USA” rocker spoke out against his ideas.
“The republic is under siege by a moron, basically,” he claimed to Rolling Stone in September 2016. “The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it’s a tragedy for our democracy. … The ideas he’s moving to the mainstream are all very dangerous ideas — white nationalism and the alt-right movement.”
In his latest interview with The Minnesota Star Tribune, Springsteen made it clear that he won’t stop speaking his opinions on the world around him.
“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,” he shared. “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.”
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