Bruce Springsteen, the iconic singer-songwriter often referred to as “The Boss,” chose not to address a question about his ongoing conflict with President Donald Trump while signing autographs for his fans.
Wearing a Deus Ex-Machina jacket along with Ray-Ban sunglasses, Springsteen moved along a line of admirers eager for his autograph on their memorabilia but declined to provide a statement when asked if he had a message for Trump.
Rather than answer, Springsteen could be seen chuckling for a moment before raising his hand, and then moving onto the next fan.
Springsteen tore into Trump on Wednesday during the first of a series of concerts in Manchester, England.
Addressing the audience, he declared, “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to invoke the righteous power of art, music, and rock and roll during these challenging times. In my vision, the America I cherish, and have written about, a symbol of hope and freedom for 250 years, is presently governed by a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.”
The crowd responded with applause when Springsteen continued to pontificate his stance on the current 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!” Springsteen added in a video posted on his YouTube page.
Trump responded by slamming Springsteen and calling him “highly overrated” on Friday.
“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “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.”
The president continued in his post, saying “Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is ‘dumb as a rock,’ and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? 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!”
Springsteen declared last year that “I’ll be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz” in the presidential election. Harris ended up losing the race to Trump.
The “Born in the USA” singer-songwriter, in an Instagram video endorsing Harris, attacked Trump as “the most dangerous candidate for President in my lifetime” with a “disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power.”
Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman, Lindsay Kornick and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
