Former Bruce Springsteen Drummer Is Tired of Singer’s Feud with Trump: “Gotta Have Respect for the President”
A former drummer for Bruce Springsteen is tired of the singer’s eternal feud with President Donald Trump.
A former drummer for Bruce Springsteen is tired of the singer’s eternal feud with President Donald Trump. He slammed Springsteen for vocally criticizing the president.
In recent months, the singer has made his distaste for the current administration known, calling it a “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration.” Former E Street Band drummer Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez is tired of it.
Speaking with the New York Post, he explained, “You gotta have respect for the president. Trump is the president of the United States — everyone should have respect for him. He is the president of the United States. And if I was standing there talking to him, I would have mucho respect for the man. I wouldn’t talk to him about anything that’s going on [politically].”
Lopez says that he avoids politics altogether with his current band, The Wonderful Winos. “My band, whatever we think, we don’t go there in our music,” said Lopez.
Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump
That being said, Lopez revealed he once met Trump on the golf course in New Jersey before he became president.
“He was very nice to me. He was very inquisitive and introduced me to Melania,” Lopez said. Trump told him, “‘ Tell Bruce I’m his biggest fan.'”
However, that no longer appears true. Trump has called for a boycott of Springsteen after the Boss criticized him publicly. Meanwhile, Lopez has no hard feelings towards Springsteen and his politics.
“I am not against what Bruce is saying now,” Lopez said. “Maybe when I was 20, I was a little more extreme, but I’m 77 now, so the extremities are gone. It’s so divided, the political part. It’s a tough one on me.”
Lopez and Springsteen still talk to this day and hang out.
“If he wants me to do something, he’ll call me” Lopez said.
“Sometimes it’s just because he hasn’t seen me for a while. And he’ll call me and say. ‘Hey, come around here,’ Lopez said. “And most of the time it’s terrible when I call him because it’s when one of our crew died, and he doesn’t know that. That’s happening more and more.”
