Bruce Springsteen's Post's middle finger to Trump's first concert with another challenge.
Despite Donald Trump's threat to shut up – otherwise, Bruce Springsteen unleashed another criticism of the president and his administration at a concert in Manchester, England on Saturday night.
The New Jersey rocker responded to many of the same views conveyed during the E Street band’s “Hope and Dream Journey” tee earlier this week. “In the United States I love, the United States I love, has been a beacon of hope and freedom for 250 years, and is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonable government,” Springsteen declared. “Tonight, we ask all those who believe in democracy and the best experience in our America, rise with us, raise your voice against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”
Before performing “My Ruins City,” Springsteen also repeated his first speech on the tour’s opening night, where he exploded the government’s attack on freedom of speech and other constitutional rights. “In the United States, they persecut people's right to use freedom of speech and to express dissent,” he noted. “In my country, they are full of sadistic pleasures in the pain they exert on faithful American workers, they are retreating from historic civil rights legislation, leading to a more just and moral society. They have abandoned our great allies and approached dictators with those struggling for their freedom. Centers and prisons are happening.”
After first hearing Springsteen’s criticism, Trump sent a not-so-subtle threat through his social media platform Truth Social, suggesting that the musician “shut up until he returns to the country…and then we’ll see how it’s going to be for him!”
It seems that the boss' threat to the president is unpopular.
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