{"id":1083,"date":"2025-05-15T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bruce-springsteen-unloads-on-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T03:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:49:00","slug":"bruce-springsteen-unloads-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bruce-springsteen-unloads-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Unloads On Trump At Summer Tour Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1246730930-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen slammed U.S. president Donald Trump as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous\u201d last night (May 14) before he and the E Street Band had even struck a note at their summer European tour opener in Co-Op Live in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my home, the America I love, the America I\u2019ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,\u201d the artist said prior to \u201cLand of Hope and Dreams.\u201d \u201cTonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/girls-in-waiting\/\">GIRLS IN WAITING<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/prince-royce-interview\/\">Prince Royce: \u2018With Music, We Can Become One\u2019\u00a0<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/jack-kirby\/\">Here\u2019s Why Comics Artist Jack Kirby Still Reigns Supreme\u00a0<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Later, before \u201cHouse of a Thousand Guitars,\u201d he noted that \u201cthe last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people\u201d is \u201cyou and me. It\u2019s in the union of people around a common set of values now that\u2019s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. At the end of the day, all we\u2019ve got is each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boss then spoke at length when introducing \u201cMy City of Ruins\u201d about the \u201cvery weird, strange and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world\u2019s poorest children to sickness and death,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is happening now. In my country they\u2019re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They\u2019re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that has led to a more just and plural society. They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They are defunding American universities that won\u2019t bow down to their ideological demands. They are removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons. This is all happening now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American. The America l\u2019ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people. So, we\u2019ll survive this moment. Now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said: \u2018in this world there isn\u2019t as much humanity as one would like, but there\u2019s enough.\u2019 Let\u2019s pray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Springsteen tour continues through early July. Last night\u2019s show wrapped with a cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cChimes of Freedom,\u201d which the artist hadn\u2019t played live since 1988.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"6ZHWIYHlXOs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen slammed U.S. president Donald Trump as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous\u201d last night (May 14) before he and the E Street Band had even struck a note at their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-springsteen","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}