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Trump implores Americans to boycott ‘dried up prune’ Bruce Springsteen: ‘His overpriced concerts suck!’
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President Donald Trump implored MAGA loyalists to boycott rock icon Bruce Springsteen, branding the veteran musician “a dried up prune” whose concert tickets are too pricey.
On Thursday morning, Trump took to Truth Social to pen a 117-word diatribe against the New Jersey-born rocker — whom he has exchanged barbs with for years.
“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the Republican president wrote.
“The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election,” he added. “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.”
The long-running feud between the president and “The Boss” dates back at least a decade.
In 2012, before his entry into politics, Trump singled out Springsteen multiple times on social media.
“Why would Ohio listen to Bruce Springsteen reading his lines? Be careful or I will go to Ohio and @MittRomney will win it,” he wrote on Twitter after the musician appeared at a “get‑out‑the‑vote” rally for then-President Barack Obama.
In September of 2016, two months before the election, Springsteen blasted Trump as a “moron” in Rolling Stone, warning that the republic was “under siege” and calling it “a tragedy for our democracy.” He endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Since then, the “Born to Run” singer has remained outspoken about his opposition to the president, labeling his administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” last May.
The next day, the president wrote on Truth Social: “Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK.”
Later in May, Trump posted an AI-generated video of him hitting the Grammy award winner with a golf ball.
Earlier this week, the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer — who once co-hosted a podcast with former President Barack Obama — launched a tour in Minneapolis in honor of the city’s protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis, of Minnesota, was an inspiration to the entire country,” Springsteen told a crowd of “No Kings” protestors in St. Paul on March 29. “Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America, and this reactionary nightmare, and these invasions of American cities will not stand.”
