{"id":61520,"date":"2026-04-02T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/donald-trump-calls-bruce-springsteen-dried-up-prune-on-truth-social\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:07:59","slug":"donald-trump-calls-bruce-springsteen-dried-up-prune-on-truth-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/donald-trump-calls-bruce-springsteen-dried-up-prune-on-truth-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Calls Bruce Springsteen &#8216;Dried Up Prune&#8217; on Truth Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTwo days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/bruce-springsteen-tour-opener-minneapolis-set-list-1235539982\/\">kicked off his Land of Hope and Dreams tour,<\/a> where he labeled the Trump administration \u201ccorrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, quite predictably, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116334990675013056\">fired back with a scathing Truth Social post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBad, 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, sometimes referred to as TDS,\u201d wrote the actual President of the United States. \u201cThe guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election, including the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America. Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our Country was DEAD, and now we have the \u2018hottest\u2019 Country, by far, anywhere in the World. MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!! President DJT.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live From Minneapolis (3\/31\/2026)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EN2kOjTx_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis is hardly the first time these two have gone at each other. At the height of the 2016 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-calls-donald-trump-a-moron-192439\/\">Springsteen told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that \u201cthe republic is under siege by a moron, basically. The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it\u2019s a tragedy for our democracy \u2026 The ideas he\u2019s moving to the mainstream are all very dangerous ideas \u2014 white nationalism and the alt-right movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFour years later, Springsteen unloaded again while hosting his SiriusXM show<em> From My Home to Yours. <\/em>\u201cA good portion of our fine country, to my eye, has been thoroughly hypnotized, brainwashed by a conman from Queens,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you mix in some jingoism, some phony patriotism, fear of a black planet, vanity, narcissism, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and a portion of our nation undergoing mass delusions and teetering on violence, and you\u2019re left with the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast year, shortly after Springsteen kicked off his European Land of Hope and Dreams tour with an anti-Trump speech, the President responded with a post on Truth Social. \u201cSpringsteen is \u2018dumb as a rock,\u2019\u201d Trump wrote, \u201cand couldn\u2019t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out \u2018prune\u2019 of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that\u2019s just \u2018standard fare.\u2019 Then we\u2019ll all see how it goes for him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe followed it up three days later with an even angrier rant. \u201cHOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?\u201d he wrote. \u201cWHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN\u2019T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONC\u00c9? \u2026AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren\u2019t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDespite the blowback, Springsteen has continued to speak his mind. On the opening night of his tour on March 31, he paused the music several times to blast the administration. This is likely to cost him some fans, but Springsteen recently <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/bruce-springsteen-streets-of-minneapolis-first-avenue-no-kings-rally-tom-morello-max-weinberg\/601632600\">told the <em>Minneapolis Tribune<\/em><\/a> that he\u2019s not worried about that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cMy job is very simple: I do what I want to do, I say what I want to say and then people get to say what they want to say about it,\u201d he said. \u201cThose are the rules of my game. That\u2019s fine with me. I don\u2019t worry about if you\u2019re going to lose this part of your audience. I\u2019ve always had a feeling about the position we play culturally, and I\u2019m still deeply committed to that idea of the band. The blowback is just part of it. I\u2019m ready for all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/donald-trump-bruce-springsteen-dried-up-prune-1235540646\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after Bruce Springsteen kicked off his Land of Hope and Dreams tour, where he labeled the Trump administration \u201ccorrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":61521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}