Trump hits back at ‘dried-up prune' Springsteen
Donald Trump has called Bruce Springsteen a 'dried-up prune' in an escalating row with the musician.
Springsteen, 75, criticised the president during the first show of his UK tour earlier this week, branding Mr Trump's administration 'corrupt, incompetent and treasonous'.
In response, the president took to Truth Social to question the 20-time Grammy winner's musical talents, calling him 'highly overrated' and 'dumb as a rock'.
Mr Trump said: 'I see that highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his radical Left politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy.'
The president has previously played the singer's 'Born in the USA' anthem at his rallies.
Credit: Instagram/Bruce Springsteen
Mr Trump, 78, also lambasted the singer for his looks.
'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, that's just 'standard fare'. Then we'll all see how it goes for him!' the president said.
During his Manchester concert, Springsteen said: 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.'
The Dancing in the Dark singer later went on to deliver a longer political speech in which he warned of 'very weird, strange and dangerous s--- going on' in the US and labelled Mr Trump an 'unfit president' presiding over a 'rogue government'.
Springsteen is a long-time Democrat supporter who called Mr Trump an 'American tyrant' when he performed at a star-studded Kamala Harris rally on the 2024 campaign trail.
Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, accused Springsteen of suffering from 'Trump derangement syndrome'.
Mr Cheung told The Washington Post: 'When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he'll realize his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain.'
Mr Trump's diatribe came less than an hour after he criticised Taylor Swift, saying the singer-songwriter is 'no longer hot'.
'Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she's no longer 'HOT?'' the president wrote on Truth Social.
Mr Trump previously fulminated against the Shake It Off singer in September after she endorsed Ms Harris for president.
The musician announced her endorsement after the presidential debate with a social media post signed 'Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady,' in a nod to JD Vance's jibes against Democrats.
During his first term in office, Mr Trump frequently clashed with a number of celebrities, including Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep.
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