U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks to media on Air Force One as he departs the Al Bateen Executive Airport on May 15, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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President Donald Trump took purpose on the Supreme Court, fellow Republicans and several other celebrities Friday in a collection of social media screeds that underscore the home political demanding situations he faces and the private grievances he would possibly not let cross.
“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” Trump wrote concerning the iconic American rock big name.
“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,” he added, after Springsteen referred to as Trump’s management “treasonous.”
Trump accused the U.S. Supreme Court of having “played,” and he admonished Republican “grandstanders” threatening to derail his legislative time table in Congress.
He even took a swipe at pop icon Taylor Swift, claiming “she’s no longer ‘HOT'” and taking credit score for her purported decline.
Trump despatched all 4 Truth Social posts inside of an hour right through his flight again to the U.S. from Abu Dhabi, the place he had simply wrapped a four-day excursion in the course of the Middle East.
The posts display the president moving his center of attention again to home problems, the place he faces contemporary political headwinds. They come with a big setback for his large tax-cut invoice Friday and a contentious bout of Supreme Court oral arguments Thursday associated with his debatable birthright citizenship order.
The assaults additionally showcased Trump’s trademark willingness to lash out at his perceived enemies — in politics and tradition alike.
“Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?'” Trump wrote, referencing a previous social media publish he despatched after Swift recommended his 2024 marketing campaign rival, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The singer Taylor Swift right through the primary of her two performances on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, on 29 May, 2024 in Madrid, Spain.
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The whirlwind shuttle to the Middle East was once marked through a slew of commercial offers and flattery for the U.S. president from Gulf State leaders.
While he was once away, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a high-profile dispute over Trump’s government order making an attempt to finish birthright citizenship, the longstanding coverage that any one born within the U.S. is a citizen.
The 3 liberal justices at the nine-seat courtroom gave the impression extremely skeptical of the arguments offered through U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer. Some of the courtroom’s conservatives — together with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee — additionally requested pointed questions of the federal government.
People hang an indication as they take part in a protest out of doors the United States Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s transfer to finish birthright citizenship because the courtroom hears arguments over the order in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2025.
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Trump wrote that the Supreme Court “IS BEING PLAYED BY THE RADICAL LEFT LOSERS, WHO HAVE NO SUPPORT, THE PUBLIC HATES THEM, AND THEIR ONLY HOPE IS THE INTIMIDATION OF THE COURT, ITSELF.”
“WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN TO OUR COUNTRY!” he wrote.
Soon after, he shared any other name for congressional Republicans to “UNITE” with a view to move a unmarried invoice that comes with the bevy of tax cuts and different pieces Trump promised right through his presidential marketing campaign.
“Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, but it will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need,” Trump claimed.
If his “one, big, beautiful bill” does now not move, he wrote, it “will be blamed on the Democrats, but that doesn’t help our Voters.”
“We don’t need ‘GRANDSTANDERS’ in the Republican Party,” he mentioned. “STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE!”
Trump’s calls for didn’t sway sufficient Republicans at the House Budget Committee to advance the invoice, on the other hand. The law was once blocked Friday amid opposition from conservatives.
Bruce Springsteen gestures right through a rally for Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Atlanta, in Georgia, U.S., October 24, 2024.
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On Wednesday, Springsteen delivered a searing grievance of Trump and, it sounds as if, DOGE chief Elon Musk.
“In America they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent,” mentioned the 75-year-old rocker, who has been an outspoken supporter of Democratic applicants.
“The richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now,” Springsteen mentioned.
Trump lambasted Springsteen’s seems to be and accused him of being “dumb as a rock,” ahead of pointing out that he “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.”
“Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!” Trump wrote.