Springsteen, ‘The Boss’, Eviscerates Trump & MAGA Government

Bruce Spingsteen, 'The Boss' - Photo: USA Today

On his tour, ‘Land of Hopes and Dreams’, in Manchester England, Bruce Springsteen ripped Trump and his Government as, ’corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’.

Known for his love of the working man’s America of which he has sung about for decades and become so popular for, that even his bands members nicknamed him ‘the Boss’, became the public’s moniker for him. Springsteen became the quintessential working man’s rocker with his songs tapping into the depths of the angst, hopes and dreams of generations of Americans.

To say that Bruce Springsteen is in touch with the beating heart and the yearning soul of working America would not be an excessive hyperbole.

So when Springsteen repeatedly during his concert, addressed his fans and agonized over the state of America, in the hands of the man who is ‘unfit’ to be President, his judgement went far beyond partisan frustration, his words carry the weight of the truth only ‘The Boss’ can bring after having been in touch with the soul of the nation for decades. During this concert, repeatedly, Springsteen bared his own heart and soul as he agonized over and condemned Trump and his administration’s damage to the America he ‘loves’.

The Boss went further by his rallying cry: ‘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.’

As the concert progressed Springsteen continued to vent his feelings about the overreach of the current administration impinging on the freedoms and values of the American people that had been held scared for centuries since its very founding. He railed against the callous treatment of American institutions at the hands of the Trump administration, and the breakdown of the ‘checks and balances’ that left America, leaving only its people as its last defence between ‘democracy and authoritarianism’. As he said, ‘So at the end of the day, all we’ve got is each other’.

Bruce Springsteen also slammed the Billionaires like Elon Musk who were playing a pivotal role in shaping America’s policies under Trump,… ‘in America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.’

Throughout the concert he continued to address the failings of Trump and his administration. Their antagonism towards America’s ‘great allies’, while ‘siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands’.

He called out the elected representatives for their inaction to curb the abuses of this Government: ‘A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American’.

He went on to say, ‘We’ll survive this moment’. Now I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, “In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there is enough”. Let us pray’.

The Boss’s words carried the weight of truth from his lofty pulpit of decades of public love and admiration for his songs (his words). His persona has not dimmed, he is as loved and admired as he ever was, and he will always be to the fans, the working man’s hero, giving voice to their dreams and hopes and their deepest yearnings.

There is no way Trump can neutralize the power of Bruce Springsteen’s sermon from the stage. Not that Trump would intelligently attempt to answer the accusations and charges being levelled against him, and his administration. So Trump did what Trump is only capable of doing: get personal and get abusive, at the lowest level of name calling! That only makes him look shallower, inept and thuggish, thereby underscoring even more powerfully Springsteen’s eloquent, thoughtful, provable, timely and devastating critique.

Bravo Bruce, after all these decades, you have neither lost your eloquence, power, nor your punch.

Springsteen, ‘The Boss’, Eviscerates Trump & MAGA Government - May 16, 2025