“Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy, and they’re too important to ignore,” singer says, days after president’s threatening social media tirade, Bruce Springsteen was undaunted by President Trump’s threatening social media tirade to “keep his mouth shut” as, during his second concert in Manchester, England, the rocker once again delivered a three-minute speech critical of “an unfit president and a rogue government.” “Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy, and they’re too important to ignore,” Springsteen said Saturday, echoing much of his message from the previous concert. “In America, my home, they’re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. That’s happening now,” Springsteen said. “In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. That’s happening now. 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 led to a more just society. They’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those who are struggling for their freedom. That’s happening now. They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. And they are removing residents off American streets without due process of law and deploying them to foreign detention centers and prisons. That’s happening now.” Following Springsteen’s first speech in Manchester earlier in the week, Trump turned to Truth Social to call the rocker “Highly Overrated” and “not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK,” as well as seemingly threaten Springsteen’s ability to reenter America upon the European tour’s conclusion. “A majority of our elected representatives have utterly failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American,” Springsteen once again said.
via rolling stone: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AGAIN CALLS OUT ‘UNFIT PRESIDENT’ TRUMP AT SECOND MANCHESTER CONCERT
siehe auch: Springsteen, Undeterred by Trump, Keeps Up War of Words From Foreign Stage The president had warned the rock icon to ‘keep his mouth shut’ during European tour. President Trump warned Bruce Springsteen to “keep his mouth shut” until he gets back to the U.S. The rock icon is showing no signs of backing down, delivering a fiery performance from a stage in this city Saturday that reflected the stark political divide in America. Springsteen echoed earlier criticism of the Trump administration Saturday, saying a “rogue” government was rolling over U.S. lawmakers and institutions designed to keep authoritarianism in check. “Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy,” Springsteen told the audience. To drive the point home, he dedicated one of his songs to our “Dear Leader,” an allusion to the honorific set aside for former North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il. A similar broadside last week prompted Trump to take aim at Springsteen in a social-media post: “I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy.” The escalating confrontation between the president and Springsteen is part of a broader clash between Trump and some pop-culture icons that goes back to the president’s first term. Trump has repeatedly assailed Taylor Swift, who endorsed Kamala Harris in last year’s election but hasn’t engaged in the sort of sharp-tongued criticism delivered by Springsteen.
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