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Donald Trump, News, Bruce Springsteen

Our President and Bruce Springsteen

John Dean
4 min readMay 21, 2025

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My Spy editorial of May 21 on Donald Trump’s rant against The Boss

Takahiro Kyono, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

I was disgusted last week when I found a rant against Bruce Springsteen on President Trump’s social media platform. It was bizarre, but not unusual. The President attacked Bruce Springsteen after The Boss criticized Trump at a concert in London. The full text of the President’s rant is included in my column. (Springsteen was not intimidated by Trump and criticized him at another concert on May 17 in Manchester, England.)

The editorial published in the Spy may be found here and below.

Our President and Bruce Springsteen

Most of us, beyond the age of 40, have friends who have attended several Bruce Springsteen concerts. My wife has attended 15. I have a friend who claims to have attended 20. There is something about “The Boss” that has made him the most popular and revered rock star of our times.

Last Friday, I was perusing Truth Social and learned that the President of the Free…

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