President Donald Trump urged MAGA supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen’s “overpriced concerts” after the far-left rocker used the opening night of his latest tour to launch a series of attacks against the president and his administration. Trump fired back with a lengthy Truth Social post mocking Springsteen’s music and appearance while accusing him of suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The president also defended his election victory and contrasted the current condition of the country with the Biden years. He concluded by telling Americans to save their hard-earned money rather than attend Springsteen’s shows.
The feud erupted after Springsteen opened his 20-date “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” at the Target Center in Minneapolis on March 31st. Springsteen had already promised that the tour would be political and focused on current events. He followed through by interrupting the nearly three-hour performance with several speeches attacking Trump, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, immigration enforcement, and the administration’s foreign policy. Trump responded two days later.
“Bad, 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,” Trump wrote. The president turned from Springsteen’s appearance to the singer’s relentless political attacks. “The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election,” he continued.
Trump emphasized that his victory included “the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America,” according to Variety’s report. Springsteen endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign and called Trump the most dangerous presidential candidate of his lifetime. Trump nevertheless won all seven major battleground states and returned to the White House with 312 electoral votes. The president’s post pointed to those results while dismissing Springsteen’s continued attacks as the complaints of a celebrity whose preferred candidate lost.
“Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our Country was DEAD, and now we have the ‘hottest’ Country, by far, anywhere in the World,” Trump continued. His post placed Springsteen’s attacks within the broader partisan divide between liberal entertainers and the voters who returned Trump to office. Springsteen has spent years campaigning for Democrats, appearing at political rallies, and using his concerts to condemn Trump. His latest tour carried that activism further by incorporating anti-administration speeches and protest material directly into the performances.
Springsteen opened the Minneapolis concert with Edwin Starr’s “War” before accusing the administration of being “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous.” He later called Trump a “snowflake” who “can’t handle the truth” and claimed the United States had become a “reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation.” Springsteen also attacked Bondi, accused the Justice Department of targeting Trump’s opponents, and condemned the administration’s immigration enforcement operations. The rocker repeatedly told the audience that his list of political grievances was “happening now.”
Springsteen also performed “Streets of Minneapolis,” an anti-ICE protest song released in January after Renée Good and Alex Pretti were fatally shot by federal immigration officers during immigration-enforcement operations in Minneapolis. The tour had been advertised with “No Kings” political branding, leaving little doubt that its purpose extended beyond Springsteen’s music. He acknowledged that the concerts would be “political and very topical about what’s going on in the country.” The opening-night performance delivered exactly that, turning sections of the show into a denunciation of the sitting president.
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Springsteen had said before the tour that he was unconcerned about alienating listeners with his anti-Trump activism. “My 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,” he told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Springsteen added that losing part of his audience did not concern him and described criticism as a predictable consequence of his political role. “The blowback is just part of it. I’m ready for all that,” he said.
Trump’s response urged his supporters to provide some of that blowback by refusing to purchase tickets. Rather than trading more insults with the singer, the president asked MAGA voters to reject Springsteen’s tour with their wallets. “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK,” Trump wrote. “SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!! President DJT.”