Kid Rock's six-word expletive-filled message to Bruce Springsteen amid Trump feud
Singer Kid Rock has defended President Donald Trump in a scathing message to music icon Bruce Springsteen amid the pair's brutal, ongoing feud
Kid Rock is in President Donald Trump's corner amid his ongoing feud with rock star Bruce Springsteen.
The singer had an especially brutal message for Springsteen, who once again aimed barbed comments at the president during his latest concert in Liverpool on Wednesday, June 4. Trump and Springsteen have been in a back-and-forth feud ever since Springsteen's concert May 17 concert when he called out the president. While addressing Bruce Springsteen's outspoken comments about Trump, Kid Rock had a strongly-worded six-word message for him: "C’mon man, don’t be a p----."
"Springsteen just wants to be in good contention with Hollywood,” the MAGA supporter told right-wing personality Benny Johnson in a clip posted to social media Wednesday.
“He hangs out with all them people, he’s on their yachts, and all this c---. I love some of his music and I respect some things that he’s done, this, that, and the other. But you start talking garbage about the president in Europe, it’s like, ‘C’mon man, don’t be a p----."
Springsteen continued bashing Trump during his Land of Hopes and Dreams tour stop at Liverpool’s Anfield stadium on Wednesday, during which fan clips from the concert show him echoing his previous sentiments, calling Trump “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.”
On stage, the 75-year-old singer said: "The America I love and have sung to you about for so long, a beacon of hope for 25 years, is currently in hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration."
Continuing on, he urged: "Tonight we ask all of you who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices, stand with us against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”
The Boss still hasn’t dialed down the feud, which began when he kicked off his tour by making similar comments about the president while in Manchester, England.
During his impassioned speech, Springsteen exclaimed: "In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.
"Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!
"There's some very weird, strange, and dangerous s--- going on out there right now. In America they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now.
"A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American."
Trump swiftly responded to Springsteen's comments on X, saying: "I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy.
"Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country."
Trump continued his rant, adding: "This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied! ) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that's just 'standard fare. Then we'll all see how it goes for him!"
While Kid Rock is on Trump's side, Springsteen has seen many of his fellow rock stars jump into his corner, including Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, and U2 frontman Bono.
Young used his own platform to back Springsteen, writing on Neil Young Archives: "Bruce and thousands of musicians think you are ruining America. You worry about that instead of the dyin’ kids in Gaza."
“That’s your problem. I am not scared of you. Neither are the rest of us. You shut down FEMA when we needed it most. That’s your problem Trump. STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT ROCKERS ARE SAYING. Think about saving America from the mess you made," he continued.
Morello offered support to Springsteen and anyone else Trump has made a target during his Boston Calling performance earlier this month. “F--- that guy,” he said on stage. Bono excalimed there’s only "one Boss in America" when he was asked for his opinion on the feud.