Donald Trump labels Bruce Springsteen a “dried out prune”

Donald Trump has hit again at Bruce Springsteen after The Boss made a number of speeches criticising him at his present in Manchester earlier this week.

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Throughout a present at Manchester’s Co-Op Reside on Wednesday (Might 14), Springsteen gave three separate speeches decrying the actions of the US president and his administration’s “corruption” and “incompetence”.

To kick off the present, The Boss carried out ‘Land of Hope and Desires’, saying to the viewers: “It’s nice to be in Manchester and again within the UK. Welcome to the Land of Hope and Desires Tour! The mighty E St. Band is right here tonight to name upon the righteous energy of artwork, of music, of rock ‘n roll in harmful occasions.”

He continued: “In my residence, the America I really like, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is at the moment within the fingers of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who imagine in democracy and the most effective of our American experiment to rise with us, elevate your voices towards authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”

Earlier than ‘Home of a Thousand Guitars’, Springsteen preached: “The final test, the final test on energy after the checks and balances of presidency have failed are the individuals, you and me. It’s within the union of individuals round a typical set of values now that’s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. On the finish of the day, all we’ve bought is one another.”

Springsteen’s third and remaining political assertion for the evening got here as he launched ‘Metropolis of Smash’: “There’s some very bizarre, unusual, and harmful shit occurring on the market proper now. In America they’re persecuting individuals for utilizing their proper to free speech and voicing their dissent. That is taking place now.

He went on: “In America the richest males are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest kids to illness and loss of life. That is taking place now. In my nation they’re taking sadistic pleasure within the ache they inflict on loyal American employees. They’re rolling again historic civil rights laws that has led to a extra simply and plural society. They’re abandoning our nice allies and siding with dictators towards these struggling for his or her freedom. They’re defunding American universities that received’t bow right down to their ideological calls for. They’re eradicating residents off American streets and with out due strategy of legislation, are deporting them to overseas detention facilities and prisons. That is all taking place now.

“A majority of our elected representatives have failed to guard the American individuals from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue authorities. They haven’t any concern or thought for what it means to be deeply American. The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is actual and no matter its faults is a superb nation with a fantastic individuals. So we’ll survive this second. Now, I’ve hope, as a result of I imagine within the fact of what the nice American author James Baldwin mentioned, he mentioned ‘on this world there isn’t as a lot humanity as one would love, however there’s sufficient.’ Let’s pray.”

Now, Trump has responded to Springsteen’s speeches with a publish on Fact Social that was simply as scathing.

The President wrote: “I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a International Nation to talk badly concerning the President of america. By no means appreciated him, by no means appreciated his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a gifted man — Only a pushy, obnoxious JERK.”

“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his pores and skin is all atrophied!) should KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT till he will get again into the Nation, that’s simply ‘commonplace fare.’ Then we’ll all see the way it goes for him!”

Earlier than singing of his metropolis of wreck, Bruce Springsteen preaches of what’s taking place again residence. He pulls no punches in a harsh sermon. That is half considered one of two on Might 14, 2025 in Manchester. Papa preach. pic.twitter.com/TIZwERP37S

— The Unspin Room (@UnspinRoom) May 14, 2025

Springsteen has lengthy been a staunch critic of Donald Trump. He publicly endorsed Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election and carried out at considered one of her rallies, and has described Trump as “mentally unwell”.

As well as, he opened a present simply after the election with a “combating prayer” for the US following Donald Trump‘s victory.

Springsteen’s present in Manchester was the primary evening of a UK and European run that may final till July.

In different information, The Boss jammed alongside John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Darlene Love and Nora Guthrie at an intimate occasion in his residence state of New Jersey final month.