‘Nobody Cares’: Bruce Springsteen Mocked For Tirade Against Trump

Singer and leftist Bruce Springsteen opened his “Land of Hopes and Dreams” tour with his E Street Band by delivering a lengthy diatribe on foreign soil against President Donald Trump, which led to mockery and criticism on social media.

The 75-year-old recording artist took to the stage on Wednesday in Manchester, England, to make his complaints. 

“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!” Springsteen said, per Vulture.

The longtime Democrat supporter made multiple political statements during his two-and-a-half-hour-long set, per Newsweek.

Before playing the song, My City of Ruins, he said, “There’s some very weird, strange, and dangerous s*** 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. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death.”

On the topic of the Trump administration targeting illegal aliens for deportation, Springsteen said, “They are removing residents off American streets and without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons.”

“In my country they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that has led to a more just and plural society,” the singer said at another point. “They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands.”

While some social media users agreed with Springsteen’s message, a large number of commenters were critical of the statements he was making.

“Nobody cares what Bruce Springsteen has to say,” one X user replied. 

“Bruce Springsteen has completely lost his mind,” another commenter observed. “He goes full MSNBC instead of just playing the music people were there to hear. Entertainers are such narcissists.”

“Fans don’t want to hear this bullsh**….They want to hear music. They should have booed him off the stage,” a third person said. 

Another commenter wrote, “Bruce Springsteen waited until his European tour to badmouth Trump. Was he afraid of the response he would have gotten if he tried it here?? I will answer this for you, Yes. Coward move.”

Besides being an outspoken Democrat supporter, Springsteen is a friend of former President Barack Obama and campaigned for both of his presidential campaigns. The singer also headlined rallies for both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ last election cycle.