Bruce Springsteen has called out Donald Trump–again–after the president called the music icon, 75, a “dried out prune” and “highly overrated.” Springsteen and the E Street Band are in the UK and Europe, playing to over 700,000 fans at 16 concerts. At his second show in Manchester, Springsteen again paused the music for a three-minute retort to Trump’s salty social media post. His words echoed the message he sent fans to his first Manchester show. “In my home, they’re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent,” Springsteen told the UK crowd. “In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death…they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. The majority of our elected representatives have utterly failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit President and a rogue Government.” The Boss, however, did find some positivity. “The America I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its many faults, it’s a great country with a great people, and we will survive this moment,” he said.
In case anyone thought Bruce Springsteen would back down after Donald Trump’s threats, last night he doubled down: “In my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led… pic.twitter.com/12OHuxXyzG
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