Bruce Springsteen is a rock legend, a political voice, and someone who once became the target of President Donald Trump’s online trolling. Now, in a new TIME cover story published Thursday, September 25, the Boss is hitting back.
After Springsteen’s fiery speech in Manchester earlier this year, the 79-year-old POTUS blasted him as “highly overrated” on Truth Social and even posted a meme of himself smacking the rocker with a golf ball. When TIME raised that moment, Springsteen, 76, laughed. “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me,” he said.
But the laughter stopped when the conversation turned to politics. “He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for,” the “Dancing in the Dark” singer continued. “If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
He didn’t let Democrats off the hook either: “We’re desperately in need of an effective alternative party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation. There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people.”
How We Got Here
Springsteen’s feud with Trump didn’t start overnight. Back in May, during the opening night of his European tour in Manchester, he paused the show to call the Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.” That moment, captured onstage and later released as part of a live EP, lit up headlines worldwide.
Within hours, Trump fired back online.
When fans and reporters pressed Springsteen about the jabs days later, he smiled but declined to comment. His remarks to TIME now arrive just weeks before the release of Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Jeremy Allen White–starring biopic about the making of Nebraska.
He’s also revisiting the album itself. On October 17, Springsteen will release Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, a four-disc box set with a Blu-Ray that finally unveils the long-rumored Electric Nebraska sessions. According to Rolling Stone, the collection features E Street Band versions of songs originally recorded solo, along with outtakes like “Child Bride” (later reworked as “Working on the Highway”), never-bootlegged tracks such as “Gun in Every Home” and “On the Prowl,” plus a brand-new live performance of the full album taped at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theater.
Not the Only One in Trump’s Crosshairs
Springsteen isn’t the only star to draw Trump’s ire. Over the years, the real estate mogul has lobbed insults at everyone from Taylor Swift to Meryl Streep. His most recent target? Jimmy Kimmel.
After Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended on September 17, the show returned six days later. Trump immediately seized the moment, using Truth Social to slam ABC, knock Kimmel’s “bad ratings,” and even claim he’d “test” the network. Kimmel, 57, fired back on stage. “Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC,” he quipped, likening the barrage to an ’80s-movie bully.
According to Nielsen, the return episode drew about 6.2 million viewers, the comedian’s biggest regular-episode audience in years.
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