THE BOSS VS. THE DON

Bruce Springsteen Unloads on Trump After President’s ‘Prune’ Diss

The music icon spoke out against Trump after the president called the 75-year-old a “dried out prune.”

Bruce Springsteen has called out Donald Trump—again—after the 78-year-old president described the music icon, 75, as a “dried out prune” and “highly overrated.” Springsteen and the E Street Band are in the UK and Europe, playing to more than 700,000 fans at 16 concerts. At his second show in Manchester, Springsteen again paused the music for a three-minute retort to Trump’s salty social media post. His words echoed the message he sent fans at his first Manchester show. “In my home, they’re persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent,” Springsteen told the UK crowd. “In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death… they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. The majority of our elected representatives have utterly failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government.” The Boss, however, did find some positivity. “The America I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its many faults, it’s a great country with a great people, and we will survive this moment,” he said.