President Donald Trump has often made controversial statements, including a recent remark calling Bruce Springsteen a \u201cdried out prune.\u201d The feud between Trump and Springsteen has drawn attention, with other artists, including U2\u2019s Bono, expressing support for Springsteen.<\/p>\n
Bono made his stance clear during an appearance on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>, declaring, \u201cThere\u2019s only one boss in America,\u201d signaling his alignment with Springsteen.<\/p>\n The tension began in May when Springsteen kicked off his European tour in Manchester, criticizing the U.S. leadership as \u201ccorrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump responded sharply, dismissing Springsteen as a \u201cdried out prune of a rocker\u201d and warning that there could be consequences upon his return to the United States.<\/p>\n Bono also addressed Trump\u2019s May 19 social media attack, in which the president claimed that artists like Bono, Beyonc\u00e9, and Oprah had been paid to perform for Democrat Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election. Bono firmly denied the allegations, emphasizing that neither he nor U2 had ever performed for any political candidate.<\/p>\n He also criticized Trump\u2019s social media platform,\u00a0Truth Social<\/em>, calling it \u201cantisocial\u201d and \u201cnot very true a lot of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking back to 2016, Bono reflected on concerns about America under Trump\u2019s leadership, noting that those who value the country\u2019s ideals would not remain silent while the \u201cAmerican dream\u201d was jeopardized. Trump was elected a month later, but the tension between the president and prominent musicians has continued to draw public attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump has often made controversial statements, including a recent remark calling Bruce Springsteen a \u201cdried out prune.\u201d The feud between Trump and Springsteen has drawn… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}