October is upon us, putting us that much closer to the release of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. Ok, we’re still three weeks away from the Boss biopic that stars Jeremy Allen White as Bruce while he was making the album Nebraska, with Jeremy Strong as his manager Jon Landau, and newly-minted Emmy winner Stephen Graham as Bruce’s father during flashback scenes. It’s a funny quirk of fate that this role marks back-to-back years of Jeremy Strong playing mentors, particularly when you consider the two mentees: Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump. Last year Strong earned his first Oscar nomination for playing Roy Cohn who, among his many sins, trained a young Trump in the vitriolic, litigious playbook we’re suffering through today. I find Strong’s film connection to Bruce and Don funny (in the Greek tragedy sense of the word) given how diametrically opposed the men are. Well, one man and one tiny-fisted bigly baby. Bruce has been calling out the president’s crimes all year, and continued the trend in a new profile with Time magazine:
“I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me,” the rock legend told Time magazine in a story published Thursday. “He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
The 20-time Grammy winner sounds like he’ll keep dishing it out to Trump and Co.
“If I’m going to stay true to who I’ve tried to be… I can’t give these guys a free pass,” Springsteen told Time. “A lot of people bought into his lies… He doesn’t care about the forgotten anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day.”
“You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” Springsteen.
The president and Springsteen won’t be dancing in the dark any time soon.
On the first date of his European tour in May, Springsteen said America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.” He also asked democracy lovers to “raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.”
Trump wrote back on Truth Social that Springsteen was “HIGHLY OVERRATED,” “dumb as a rock” and “a JERK” whose skin had “atrophied.” He also told the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.”
Despite his fervent opposition to Trump over the years, the “Born to Run” legend didn’t sing the praises of the Democratic Party in his Time interview.
“We’re desperately in need of an effective party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation,” he said. “There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people.”
“He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” YASS, Bruce! Dementia Don was always going to be an impeached president — and becoming the first to merit it twice was no less than he deserved. But if these long, painful, soul-crushing eight months of a second term have shown us anything, it’s a portrait of a man in cognitive decline. When he’s not making stark raving mad rants at the august body of the United Nations General Assembly, he’s sending in the National Guard to Democratic Portland, Oregon… based on footage of riots that happened five years ago. At least that’s what Oregon Governor Tina Kotek strongly suspects after a phone call with the president over the weekend. If that isn’t 25th Amendment behavior, I don’t know what is. Bruce completely has Don’s number, and I hope he keeps letting it rip because we all know how much it rankles the dried out mango. Though I do disagree with Bruce on one point, the suggestion that Don only cares about “himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day.” He doesn’t care about them either, just himself. A tale of two men: Bruce and Don, the Boss and the Loss.
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Well, he’s not wrong, unfortunately.
The funny thing about Trump’s response to him is that we all know Trump wants Bruce to love him. He wants to go on stage during a Springsteen concern with 50k screaming fans. he wants Bruce to record a podcast with him like he did with Obama. The New Yorker in Trump wants Bruce to be his biggest fan.
and it kills him that he’s not. It kills him that all of these celebs that he wants to love him just can’t stand him. But he can’t figure out why so he covers it up by saying they’re talentless or past their prime or whatever. But we know.
Thank you, Boss. Keep speaking the truth!
Bruce is the boss for a reason. Seriously, if the only people accurately sizing up the situation are musicians — and not opposition party politicians — we’re in deep trouble. Kudos to the Democrats who’ve called this out as beyond the pale, even in terms of partisan party politics. It’s just beyond the pale, full stop.
Thank you Bruce.
Even if the Felon Dictator wasn’t a racist rapist murderous fascist white-supremacist Nazi criminal and traitor! the fact that he spends all his time fucking around on the internet calling people names and whining how much he hates them should be enough to 25th him. He is no leader of our country. His brain is shit. #notmypresident
The part that terrifies me is all the many many MANY people and governments and lawmakers who just lay down dead whenever Trump makes whatever stupid/unconstitutional/illegal speech or post. They just either want it to happen or let themselves be easily bullied into doing whatever the f*ck that big stupid baby wants.
Also. I forever love Bruce. He’s my #1. And he looks incredible. Look at his skin!
I agree, Bruce looks great! He’s still in fabulous shape. Can you believe Trump is only three years older? It shows how being evil can age you. The new Nebraska boxset with Electric Nebraska is coming out soon too. That’s been a holy grail for Bruce fans forever. He’s probably been the entertainer who’s spoken out most against Trump and I’m proud to be a fan.
Trump needs to spend a few weeks on a MedBed to cure his mental and physical degeneration.
LOL.