Trump’s Got Beef with Bruce and a Crush on Taylor

[Lewie London]

You seen what Trump’s barkin’ on about now? Gone off his nut over Bruce Springsteen of all people. Called him a dried out prune with “atrophied skin” like he’s the bloody manager of a Holland & Barrett gone rogue. Man’s triggered because The Boss told a Manchester crowd he’s a treasonous toe-rag runnin’ a rogue government. Which, let’s be honest, is about as controversial as sayin’ Wetherspoons does a ropey fry-up.

 

So now Trump’s throwin’ his usual toys out the pram, callin’ Bruce “overrated,” “pushy,” “dumb as a rock,” and all that jazz. He even said Bruce should “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back in the country” like he’s some kinda airport security officer at JFK with a grudge. Mate, he’s not runnin’ a border patrol, he’s just fumin’ ‘cos someone called him out and did it in a leather jacket while singin’ Born in The USA.

 

And it weren’t just Bruce catchin’ strays. Out the blue, Trump took a potshot at Taylor Swift too, like he’s got beef with Spotify now. Said ever since he wrote “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” she’s “no longer hot.” That’s not politics, bruv, that’s what you hear from bitter blokes down the boozer after four pints and a rejection on Tinder. Next he’ll be claimin’ Adele’s album gave him IBS.

 

Truth is, Trump’s not playing public servant, or even president anymore, he’s on a full-blown vendetta tour. If someone sells more tickets than him, sings in tune, or don’t fancy givin’ him a reacharound, they’re public enemy number one. And Bruce? He’s just the latest on the list of Americans who don’t fancy lettin’ a sun-dried fascist with a fake tan turn the country into a dictatorship wrapped in a MAGA hat. Fair play to The Boss, I say. Give the prune hell.
 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/16/donald-trump-attacks-bruce-springsteen

[MicroB]

No love lost between either man.

 

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/2016/09/bruce_springsteen_donald_trump_moron.html

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-calls-donald-trump-a-moron-192439/

 

It's rather old news.

 

Wonder when Kid Rock will have a whinge.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/kid-rock-restaurant-ice-raids

[impulse]

RFS

 

Rent Free Space

 

On an aside, did anyone see his Clinton mysterious deaths video before it was taken down?  Is it still up anywhere?

 

 

[FlorC]

4 hours ago, impulse said:

RFS

 

Rent Free Space

 

On an aside, did anyone see his Clinton mysterious deaths video before it was taken down?  Is it still up anywhere?

 

 

 

[stevenl]

5 hours ago, impulse said:

RFS

 

Rent Free Space

 

On an aside, did anyone see his Clinton mysterious deaths video before it was taken down?  Is it still up anywhere?

 

 

Off topic nonsense.

 

So you're saying Springsteen is living rent free in trump'head?

[MicroB]

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

Off topic nonsense.

 

So you're saying Springsteen is living rent free in trump'head?

 

I think it cuts both ways, if such a ridiculous notion actually exists. Its a curous phrase, used by people who were avid readers of an agony aunt to get on in life.

 

But Springsteen might have not been so pissed off if Donald Trump didn't basically try and steal his music in 2016, and co-opt his song. Born in the USA, to accuse Ted Cruz of not being a real American.

 

Trump liked his songs enough in 2016 to feature them in his campaign rallies, but didn't annay up. In January 2016

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3393950/Who-hell-knows-Trump-continues-passive-aggressive-birther-slam-Ted-Cruz-gets-Nevada-audience-weigh-senator-s-citizenship.html

 

 

By September 2016, Springsteen obviously had enough of this freeloader.

 

 

 

I think you have to be as thick as two short planks not to understand where Springsteen has always been on the political spectrum, and that he has always been a very political singer (America's Billy Bragg, but more subtle). You have to be spectacularly out of touch to think "Born in the USA" is a patriotic song.

 

They all loved him when he stuck it to the commies.

 

 

 

 

As for Springsteen's aged appearance; at 76, he's in much better shape than a 76 year old Donald Trump. Springsteen and Trump at age 76. Both very wealthy men.