President Donald Trump took aim at rock star Bruce Springsteen again as their week-long tête-à-tête continues.
On Wednesday, Trump posted a video on Truth Social of himself playing golf, before the video cuts to Springsteen tripping on a concert stage with a golf ball added in and appearing to hit the rocker, causing his fall.
The post went up the same day Springsteen released a new EP called “Land of Hope & Dreams.” The EP features six songs from a May 14 concert in Manchester, England, where he called out Trump. Those recorded remarks about the president, backed up by a piano, make up the fourth track, “My City of Ruins (Introduction).”
“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” Springsteen said. “Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.”
The other songs include the title track, “Land of Hope & Dreams (Live),” “Long Walk Home (Live),” “My City of Ruins (Live)” and a cover of Bob Dylan’s 1964 song “Chimes of Freedom.”
Since The Boss made these remarks in Manchester, Trump wrote on Truth Social to blast the musician in the days leading up to the golf video. On Friday, Trump called Springsteen “highly overrated,” “dumb as a rock” and a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!).”
Trump followed up by calling for an investigation into Springsteen and other celebrities who contributed to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.
Other rockers have come to Springsteen’s defense in the wake of Trump’s attacks on the New Jersey musician. Onstage in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder said Springsteen was right in saying “residents are being removed off America’s streets and being deported without due process of law.”
“They’re defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideologies, as Bruce said,” Vedder added.
That same day, during a performance with the band Saving Grace in Finland, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant showed his support for The Boss, Classic Rock reported.
“Right now in England, which is where we come from — not quite the land of the ice and snow — Bruce Springsteen is touring right now in the U.K.,“ Plant said. ”And he’s putting out some really serious stuff. So tune in to him. And let’s all hope that we can be…”
On Tuesday, Neil Young wrote a blog post directed at Trump, which started off with “What are you worryin’ about man?”
“Bruce and thousands of musicians think you are ruining America,” Young wrote. “You worry about that instead of the dyin’ kids in Gaza. That’s your problem. STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT ROCKERS ARE SAYING.”
