Donald Trump escalates feud with Bruce Springsteen, requires investigation – National | Globalnews.ca

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his feud with Bruce Springsteen over the lengthy weekend, calling for a “major investigation” into the rock legend after Springsteen branded the Trump management as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” all through a live performance in England closing week.

Early Monday, as Trump was once making ready to satisfy with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he took to Truth Social to put up a long, all-caps screed in opposition to Springsteen and different Hollywood A-listers who recommended Kamala Harris all through closing yr’s presidential election.

“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?” Trump wrote on-line, in a message revealed in the course of the evening. “WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? … AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???”

“I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment,” the president persevered in his rant. “In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.”

He didn’t prevent there, on the other hand. Nearly 8 hours later, he returned to the topic.

“According to news reports, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to walk onto a stage, quickly ENDORSE KAMALA, and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, NOT EVEN ONE SONG!” he wrote.

“Remember, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her thousands and thousands of Dollars for doing not anything instead of giving Kamala a complete throated ENDORSEMENT.

Switching again to all-caps, he concluded: “THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!”

None of Trump’s claims had been substantiated.

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Springsteen, an established opponent of the president, stood up as one in every of Trump’s maximum distinguished cultural critics closing week with a verbal takedown from a British level.

He advised a Manchester target audience that he believes Trump is “unfit” for the Oval Office.

While introducing his and the E Street Band’s track Land of Hopes and Dreams, and then his present excursion is known as, the 75-year-old Springsteen stated, “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.”

“The last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people, you and me. It’s in the union of people around a common set of values now — that’s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. So at the end of the day, all we’ve got is each other,” Springsteen persevered later within the display.

In answer, Trump later bashed The Boss as “Highly Overrated” and “not a talented guy.”

“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy.”

He went directly to accuse Springsteen of being a “pushy, obnoxious JERK” and “dumb as a rock,” sooner than zeroing in on his look.

“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country,” the president wrote, seeming to threaten Springsteen with penalties when he returns to U.S. soil.

“Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

Springsteen recommended Harris closing fall, a couple of month sooner than the election, suggesting Trump must had been disqualified from operating because of his “disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power.”

Springsteen isn’t new to this sport

It’s no longer the primary time Springsteen has spoken out in opposition to Trump — or a Republican president.

When former president Ronald Reagan referenced Springsteen’s “message of hope” at a marketing campaign prevent all through the peak of the rocker’s Born in america recognition, Springsteen puzzled if Reagan had listened to his song and its references to these left at the back of within the 1980s financial system.

He additionally has had an now and again bumpy dating with one-time Republican presidential candidate and previous New Jersey governor Chris Christie, keen on his song.

Springsteen has campaigned for Trump’s combatants, together with Harris closing fall. In 2020, he stated that “a good portion of our fine country, to my eye, has been thoroughly hypnotized, brainwashed by a con man from Queens.”

During his profession, Springsteen has challenged his target audience politically past presidential endorsements. The 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad bluntly documented the lives of suffering immigrants — Mexican and Vietnamese amongst them. And his 2001 track American Skin (41 Shots), criticized the taking pictures through New York City law enforcement officials of an unarmed Guinean immigrant named Amadou Diallo, angering one of the blue-collar segments of his fan base.

— With information from Global News’ Rachel Goodman and The Associated Press

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