President Donald Trump is escalating his feud with American music legend Bruce Springsteen, a longtime critic of the president, hours after delivering a prime-time address in which he telegraphed plans to continue hitting Iran over the next couple weeks.
Trump compared Springsteen to a “dried up prune” and said he has “long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a Thursday post on Truth Social.
“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 wrote.
It was just one of several social media posts the president has made on Thursday morning broadly focused on personal grudges and not his Wednesday evening speech about the war.
Trump took an apparent dig at the Supreme Court as a “kangaroo court!!!” and reposted articles dinging ally (and sometimes critic) Tucker Carlson and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
The administration has had shifting goalposts for the White House’s operation in Iran in the month since the attacks kicked off in February. On Wednesday night, he called Tehran an existential threat to “the free world” and urged U.S. allies to assist in opening up the Strait of Hormuz, a pivotal waterway for the transit of the world’s oil supply that has vexed the president.
Springsteen’s advocacy against the president goes back a decade. The “Republic is under siege by a moron,” he told Rolling Stone in September 2016. He has bashed Trump while on tour, and he performed at a “No Kings” rally in protest of the president last Saturday in Minneapolis, slamming the White House’s Operation Metro Surge — Trump’s immigration crackdown there — with a new song titled: “Streets of Minneapolis.”
On Thursday, it was the president’s turn to lob an attack.
“MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY,” he wrote.
