A public feud has escalated between former President Donald Trump and musician Bruce Springsteen. The conflict began when Springsteen, during a European tour, criticized the U.S. leadership as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump responded angrily on social media, attacking Springsteen as a \u201cdried out prune of a rocker.\u201d He warned the singer to keep quiet and suggested there would be consequences upon his return to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dispute has drawn other artists into the fray, including U2\u2019s Bono. While appearing on *Jimmy Kimmel Live*, Bono declared his allegiance, stating, \u201cThere\u2019s only one boss in America,\u201d in a clear show of support for Springsteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bono also addressed a separate, unsolicited attack from Trump. The former president had insinuated on social media that Bono and other artists were paid to perform for Democrat Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The singer firmly denied these claims, stating, \u201cU2 and I [were] never paid \u2013 or played \u2013 a show to support any candidate from any party.\u201d He clarified that such an event has never occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bono also criticized Trump\u2019s Truth Social platform, remarking that it \u201cseems to be pretty antisocial and it\u2019s not very true a lot of the time.\u201d This comment highlights the deepening animosity between the artist and the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This tension is not new; before the 2016 election, Bono had already expressed concern about America\u2019s future under Trump. He questioned what it would mean for the world and stated that good people would not \u201cstand silently while you run off with the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A public feud has escalated between former President Donald Trump and musician Bruce Springsteen. The conflict began when Springsteen, during a European tour, criticized the U.S. leadership as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous.\u201d Trump responded angrily on social media, attacking Springsteen as a \u201cdried out prune of a rocker.\u201d He warned the singer to keep quiet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}