The Legend of Rock’n’roll held a series of sharp speeches on the Manchester stage, aimed at “Corrupted, incompetent and treacherous administration“From the US.
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Bruce Springsteen held a series of enthusiastic speeches in which he criticized Donald Trump and his administration, named the president “inappropriate“For the function.
He spoke on the stage in Manchester, in the opening of his Land of Hope and Dreams tournament with E street band, writes The Guardian.
In the introduction made to the song that gives the name of the tournament, Springsteen said: “At home, America that I love, America I wrote about, which was a lighthouse and freedom for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and traitor. We ask all those who believe in democracy and in the best aspects of our American experiment, to raise our voices!
Later, presenting House of a Thousand Gitars, he said: “The last control over power after the government’s controls and balance have failed are people, you and me. Uniting people around a common set of values is all that is now between democracy and authoritarianism. So, at the end of the day, we only have each other. ”
Bruce Springsteen also said: “There are some very strange and dangerous things there, right now. In America, people are persecuted because they use their right to free expression and express their disagreement. This is happening now. In America, the richest people have the satisfaction of abandoning the poorest children in the world in illness and death. This is happening now. In my country, they feel a sadistic pleasure in the pain they cause loyal American workers (…) Most of our chosen representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an inappropriate president and a dishonest government (now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said.
Springsteen criticized Trump and during his first presidential term, saying it was a “threat to our democracy ”.
The singer has long been a supporter of the Democrats and a close friend of Barack Obama – he campaigned for each of his presidential campaigns, and the two created together a series of podcasts, Renegades: Born in the USA. Springsteen also participated in rallies for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s campaigns.
Springsteen also wrote a defining anthem of the September 11th tragedy, The Rising.
