Just over 24 hours ago Bruce Springsteen announced the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, 20 dates with debut on March 31st in Minneapolis (a city obviously chosen not by chance) and final on May 27th in the capital Washington DC. It is an explicitly political tour that adopts the slogan “No Kings” from the protests against Donald Trump's authoritarianism and which has been presented by the musician as the «celebration and defense of America, American democracy, American freedom, the American Constitution and our sacred American dream which are under attack by a would-be king and his rogue government in Washington, DC. You are all welcome, regardless of your beliefs.”
Obviously the Trump administration, which has always been involved in pop campaigns that include very strong praise for those who support it and discredit for those who criticize it, could not help but respond. If in the past Trump himself offended and threatened Springsteen for the speech he made on stage in Manchester (“He is not a talented man, just a slimy and hateful idiot who supported with conviction a corrupt person like Joe Biden” and “He would do well to keep his mouth shut until he returns home”) and published a video in which he hits the musician with a golf ball, now it is Steven Cheung, White House communications director who has entrusted the reply to Political.
«When that loser Springsteen comes home to… City of Reuns that he has in his head will realize that his Glory Days are over and that his fans have left him Out on the streetputting it in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he suffers from a severe form of anti-Trump delirium syndrome (Trump Derangement Syndrome in the original, an expression used for years to diminish criticism of the president, ed.) which made his brain rot.”
