Trump attacks Bruce Springsteen after singer's Minnesota No Kings appearance, tour kickoff

Star Tribune on Apr 2, 2026

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President Donald Trump attacked Bruce Springsteen on social media April 2, days after the singer appeared at an anti-Trump rally in St. Paul and kicked off his tour in Minneapolis by calling out “corruption in the White House.”

“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Thursday morning. “MAGA should boycott his overpriced concerts, which suck.”

Springsteen, who penned the protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” in January after federal agents shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, was one of the headliners of last weekend’s flagship No Kings rally protesting the Trump administration at the Minnesota State Capitol.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer also opened his “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” at Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday, which had several overtly political moments.

“We are here in celebration and in defense of American ideals, our Constitution, democracy and our sacred American promise,” Springsteen said at the show, which kicked off with a familiar chorus: “War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.”

Trump’s post also rehashed some of Wednesday’s prime-time speech on Iran. He said under former President Joe Biden “our Country was DEAD, and now we have the ‘hottest’ Country, by far, anywhere in the World.”

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Jon Bream of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this story.

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