Bruce Springsteen was born in the USA, raised in the USA, and is now righteously angry at the USA. While performing at Co-op Live in Manchester, U.K., on May 14, Springsteen proclaimed his dissent with the Trump administration over its “authoritarianism.” “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ’n’ roll in dangerous times,” the mighty Springsteen declared, before starting his 2001 track “Land of Hope and Dreams,” as seen in videos shared on social media. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve 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. Tonight, 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!”
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Springsteen has been a critic of Trump since 2016, usually focusing, as he did this time, on Trump not aligning with his version of American values, often referring to Trump as “un-American.” In January 2017, he spoke out against Trump’s executive order seeking to ban foreign nationals from predominantly Muslim countries from visiting the United States, calling it “anti-democratic and fundamentally un-American.” In June 2018, he stopped his Broadway show to call Trump’s border policy “shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American.” Also, in 2021, he libbed out with former president Barack Obama over the course of eight episodes on their joint podcast, Renegades: Born in the USA. Maybe he was born to run … for office?
