{"id":142334,"date":"2025-05-16T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/dumb-as-a-rock-trump-fires-back-at-obnoxious-jerk-bruce-springsteen-national\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:20:26","slug":"dumb-as-a-rock-trump-fires-again-at-obnoxious-jerk-bruce-springsteen-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/dumb-as-a-rock-trump-fires-again-at-obnoxious-jerk-bruce-springsteen-national\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dumb as a rock\u2019: Trump fires again at \u2018obnoxious jerk\u2019 Bruce Springsteen – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump<\/a> fired again at rocker Bruce Springsteen<\/a> on Friday, utilizing his acquainted method to coping with folks he doesn\u2019t like \u2014 hurling insults on social media and going after their bodily look.<\/p>\n

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The president of the United States, upset with being name-dropped and criticized by the rock and roll icon<\/a> at one in every of his current concert events, bashed The Boss as \u201cHighly Overrated\u201d and \u201cnot a talented guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cNever liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he\u2019s not a talented guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to accuse Springsteen of being a \u201cpushy, obnoxious JERK\u201d and \u201cdumb as a rock,\u201d earlier than zeroing in on his look.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis dried out \u2018prune\u2019 of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country,\u201d the president wrote, seeming to threaten Springsteen with penalties when he returns to U.S. soil.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we\u2019ll all see how it goes for him!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s problem with Springsteen stems from earlier this week, after the artist issued some scathing remarks<\/a> for the president, saying he believes Trump is \u201cunfit\u201d for the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

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While introducing his and the E Street Band\u2019s music Land of Hopes and Dreams<\/em>, after which his present tour is known as, the 75-year-old Springsteen mentioned, \u201cIn my home, the America I love, the America I\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTonight, 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,\u201d he informed the group in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n

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He didn\u2019t cease there; all through the night time, he sprinkled the present with criticism of Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n

Before enjoying House of a Thousand Guitars<\/em>, he mentioned: \u201cThe last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people, you and me. It\u2019s in the union of people around a common set of values now that\u2019s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. So at the end of the day, all we\u2019ve got is each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before performing My City of Ruins<\/em>, he delivered an extended monologue:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now\u2026 in America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world\u2019s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n

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