President Donald Trump called on his supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen’s new tour Thursday, unloading on the rock star after the far-left rocker opened a politically charged run of shows in Minneapolis.
“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 in a Truth Social post.
“The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election, including the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America.”
Trump then turned the attack into a call for fans to stay home. “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!!” he posted.
PRESIDENT TRUMP truthSocial: 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… pic.twitter.com/Hann00w8EC
— Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) April 2, 2026
Trump also hilariously followed up with a post asking if Springsteen was “going to sue his plastic surgeon.”
The broadside came as Springsteen launched his “Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour” on Monday in Minneapolis, where he had already made clear he intended to make the shows political.
“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,” Springsteen told the Minnesota Star Tribune before the tour opened. “Those are the rules of my game. That’s fine with me.”
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He made plain he was not worried about the backlash that could follow.
“I’ve always had a feeling about the position we play culturally, and I’m still deeply committed to that idea of the band,” Springsteen added. “The blowback is just part of it. I’m ready for all that.”
He also laid out what he wanted the run of shows to become. “The tour is going to be political and very topical about what’s going on in the country,” he said.
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“Minneapolis and St. Paul, that was the place I wanted to begin it, and I wanted to end it in Washington.”
Springsteen brought that message to the stage at Target Center when he opened the tour with a direct attack on Trump and his administration.
“The America that I love, the America … that has been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration,” Springsteen told the crowd, according to Deadline.
BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen just announced that his band will be doing a tour in effort to fight back against Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. The Boss is back! pic.twitter.com/0aWmLPgjN9
— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) March 25, 2026
He then urged the audience to stand with him and the E Street Band.
“Choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, resistance over complacency, unity over division and peace over…”
Later in the show, Springsteen returned to the same themes and widened the attack.
“We are living through some very dark times,” he told the crowd, according to Variety. “Our American values that have sustained us for 250 years are being challenged as never before.”
He moved from there to the war overseas. “We’ve got our young men and women’s lives at risk in an unconstitutional and illegal war. This is happening now.”
Seriously is there a dumber and more irrelevant musician on planet Earth than Bruce Springsteen who hasn't had a hit song since "Steets of Philadelphia" released 33 years ago in 1993? pic.twitter.com/87gJtbdRtD
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 2, 2026
He also focused on immigration enforcement. “There are immigrants being held in detention centers around the country and being deported without due process of law to alien countries and foreign gulags. This is happening now.”
After taking aim at Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department, Springsteen trained his remarks on the White House.
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“While working Americans struggle, our president and his family enrich themselves by billions of dollars trading on the people’s office in corruption unmatched in American history. This is happening now.”
“This White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world,” he added.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WROTE AN ENTIRE PROTEST SONG ABOUT ICE AND PERFORMED IT FOR 200,000 PEOPLE AT THE NO KINGS RALLY IN MINNESOTA
Bruce Springsteen performed "Streets of Minneapolis" at the No Kings rally in St. Paul, a protest song he wrote about two people killed during ICE… pic.twitter.com/llJxYWqWFN
— Tears of the Left (@CheersToTears) April 3, 2026
“To many, we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing for the global good. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy. This is happening now.”
Springsteen and the band closed that stretch by performing Edwin Starr’s “War,” a song Springsteen has been using to protest Republicans.
The tour stop was not the only time Springsteen brought that rhetoric to Minnesota. He also played a solo version of “Streets of Minneapolis” on Saturday during the “No Kings” rally at the state Capitol in St. Paul.
“This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis,” Springsteen told the crowd. “Well, they picked the wrong city.”
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Bruce Springsteen serenades a mini-
Robert De Niro pic.twitter.com/50ZQFFYuGT— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) April 3, 2026
He praised the response from residents and cast it as a show of force against the federal operation.
“The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis, of Minnesota, was an inspiration to the entire country,” he said.
“Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America, and this reactionary nightmare, and these invasions of American cities will not stand.”
Springsteen wrote “Streets of Minneapolis” in January after the fatal ICE shootings of Americans Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
The lyrics tied the song to those killings and to the larger immigration crackdown that followed.
“We’ll take our stand for this land/And the stranger in our midst/We’ll remember the names of those who died/On the streets of Minneapolis,” Springsteen sang.
The gritty video for the song showed a city flooded with 3,000 federal officers in what Trump’s administration called its largest immigration enforcement action anywhere in the country.
The footage showed masked and armed agents in tactical gear, including Greg Bovino, who became the face of the operation before he was pulled out of Minneapolis amid the backlash and prepared to retire.
It also showed 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack while surrounded by immigration officers, an image that fueled outrage far beyond Minnesota.
Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen join together for ‘No Kings’ rally in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/iQvUGulV4T
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 29, 2026
The video included makeshift memorials where Good and Pretti were killed. It also cut in clips of the two men’s final moments as they confronted officers.
By the end, thousands of residents filled the streets chanting “ICE Out!” as the demonstrations spread through Minneapolis.
Springsteen had already used similar language against Trump during his European tour last year.
There, he slammed the administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous,” and denounced Trump as an “unfit president” leading a “rogue government” of people who have “no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American.”
Trump has been firing back at Springsteen for some time. In another social media post, the president wrote, “Never liked him, never liked his music or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — just a pushy, obnoxious JERK.”
