Regardless of a risk from Donald Trump to close his mouth — or else, Bruce Springsteen stood his floor, unleashing one other blistering critique of the president and his administration throughout a live performance in Manchester, England, on Saturday evening.
The New Jersey rocker echoed lots of the identical sentiments delivered through the kick-off of The E Avenue Band’s “Land of Hope and Desires Tour” earlier this week. “In my house, the America I like, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is at the moment within the arms of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,” Springsteen proclaimed. “Tonight, we ask all who consider in democracy and the perfect of our American expertise to rise with us, elevate your voices towards the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring!”
Earlier than performing “My Metropolis of Ruins,” Springsteen additionally repeated a speech first given through the tour’s opening evening by which he blasted the administration’s assault on free speech and different constitutional rights. “In America, they’re persecuting individuals for utilizing their proper to free speech and voicing their dissent,” he famous. “In my nation, they’re taking sadistic pleasure within the ache that they inflict on loyal American staff, they’re rolling again historic civil rights laws that led to a extra simply and ethical 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 occurring now.”
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After first listening to of Springsteen’s criticism, Trump issued a not so delicate risk by way of his social media platform Reality Social, advising the musician to “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT till he will get again into the Nation… Then we’ll all see the way it goes for him!”
It appears The Boss is unbothered by the president’s threats.
UPDATE: Bruce did not maintain his mouth shutpic.twitter.com/o4GEVceZK7
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) Might 18, 2025