Trump Post about Bruce Springsteen helps one person: the boss

“In my house, the America that I love is the America that I have written about, which has been a beacon of hope and freedom for 250 years, currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treacherous administration,” he continued before he asked the fans “to raise their voices against authoritarianism and to ring freedom!”

Later in the evening Springsteen offered a withered takedown of what he saw in the USA under Trump.

“They pursue people that they use their right to freedom of expression and express their contradiction,” Springsteen began in comments that were later published on his website and YouTube channel. He continued:

He also aimed at Trump's Republican and the Democratic Party and argued that they had all failed to protect the Americans “from the abusing of an unsuitable president and a villain government”.

Nevertheless, he said: “The America that I have sung to them for 50 years is real, and independent of its mistakes, is a great country with a great people. So we will survive this moment.”

The White House reacted almost immediately and released Springsteen as a “elite and outsider”: “Bruce is cordially invited to stay overseas, while hard -working Americans, thanks to President Trump, enjoy a safe border and a cooling inflation.”

Then, Friday morning, apparently by Air Force One on the way back from his departure from the Middle East, Trump shot back over social media.

“I see that heavily overvalued Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to talk badly about the President of the United States,” Trump wrote about the social truth. “He never liked him, never liked his music or radical politics and, above all, he is not a talented type – just an intrusive, disgusting jerk that fervently supported crumbs Joe Biden.”

Trump called Springsteen stupidly and perhaps visually impaired and ended with a personal note: “This dry 'Prune' of a rocker (his skin is everything is switched on!) Should hold his mouth until he returns to the country, that's only” standard tariff “. Then we will all see how it works for him!”

In view of the aggressive approach that the Trump government has taken over in the past three months, the tone was somewhat worrying. Was it a direct warning or just an attempt to relax artistic language more generally? Or both? (The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada quickly condemned Trump's remarks and noticed: “Musicians have the right to freedom of expression.))

Of course, this is not the first time that Springsteen Trump has publicly criticized and described it as a “flagrante poisonous narcissist” during the 2016 campaign. And it appears regularly – especially during the presidential campaigns – at large events of the Democratic Party.

The title track from Springsteens 1984 album “Born in the USA”, which criticized the Vietnam War and the subsequent treatment of American veterans, was accepted by President Ronald Reagan as a modern American hymn, although his texts draw a much darker picture.

Springsteen is now 75 years old and does not make new music of real effects. His upcoming publication “Tracks II: The Lost Albens”, the long-awaited follow-up to his “Tracks” box set from Studio-Outses from 1998, contains seven unpublished albums, most of which was not recorded in this century.

He certainly knew that there was a good chance that Trump would react angrily. The untouched video, which was published on his website (and the transcript of his polemic), definitely telegraphed. By mocking Springsteen Trump and letting him play the hero again his legions of the fans. It also gives him a jerk cultural relevance – or at least one or two news cycle – at a good time.

I would like to believe that Springsteen's speech, which was defeated in my social media feed as a “must-watch”-was delivered-from selfless reasons. It is certainly undoubtedly that he said every word of what he said. But that does not mean that it will have a lot of recognizable effects.

Within minutes after the reaction to Springsteen's comments, Trump had switched to Taylor Swift.

“Has anyone noticed that since I hate Taylor Swift?” Trump wrote and suggested that his recent criticism of Swift has made it less a global phenomenon in recent months. This is of course absurd. Swift, who was the best-selling global artist from 2024, does not play much at the moment because in December she only completed her record broken “Eras Tour”.

Could it be that Trump had the second overview of taking Springsteens bait? Perhaps. But probably not.