The Boss has long opposed Trump.


Bruce Springsteen

he spent part of the opening night of his tour criticizing President

Donald Trump

.

The powerful E Street Band is joining us tonight to invoke the sacred strength of art, music, and rock and roll during these perilous times,” said the Boss to the audience in Manchester, England, as they began their performance at the Co-Op Live stage. “Back in my homeland—the America I have chronicled through song—is now under the control of an unethical, inept, and traitorous government after serving as a symbol of hope and liberty for over two and half centuries. This evening, we urge everyone who upholds democratic values and cherishes the finest aspects of our shared American heritage to stand alongside us, amplify your voices against tyranny, and ensure that freedom echoes loud and clear.

Watch him perform in video recorded by someone at the event.


Springsteen revisited the topic later in his performance.

He remarked that in America, the wealthiest individuals derive pleasure from leaving the globe’s most destitute children to suffer illness and mortality” prior to performing the 2002 track ‘My City of Ruins,’ according to reports.

Billboard

. “And in my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers, they are rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and moral society. They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.”

Springsteen has consistently been against Trump. In the previous October, he did so again.

endorsed Trump’s opponent

, Kamala Harris, outperformed Trump for the presidency. He also referred to him as “the most dangerous candidate for president in mylifetime.”

“Not since the Civil War has this nation experienced such political, spiritual, and emotional division as it is currently facing,” he remarked. “There’s no reason for things to remain this way.”

The artist behind songs such as “Born in the U.S.A,” “The River,” and “My Hometown” said he was standing behind the Democratic candidates for president and vice president, because their policies mirror the “vision of America [he’s] been consistently writing about for 55 years.”


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In June 2020, he told the

Atlantic

“I don’t know if our democracy could stand another four years of his custodianship.”

The 20-time Grammy winner will have many more chances to take the mic this summer, as his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour is scheduled to

continue throughout Europe

over the next two months.

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