Bruce Springsteen admittedly “couldn’t care less” what President Donald Trump thinks of him.
In a new interview with Time Magazine, the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer reflected on his recents criticisms of the president. Some of his comments came during a May stop on The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, where he slammed the Trump administration.
“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,” he said at the time. “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!”
The president later responded to his comments on Truth Social, where he said the musician was “dumb as a rock” and that “this dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare’. Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”
“If I’m going to stay true to who I’ve tried to be … I can’t give these guys a free pass,” Springsteen told Time. “A lot of people bought into his lies … He doesn’t care about the forgotten anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day.”
Springsteen added, “You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance.”
As to what the president has said about him, Springsteen said, “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
However, he didn’t spare criticism for the opposing political party. “We’re desperately in need of an effective alternative party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation,” he said. “There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people.”
