Trump calls for MAGA boycott of Springsteen concerts: ‘Total loser who spews hate’

President Trump on Thursday called for his core supporters to boycott Bruce Springsteen’s concerts after the rock legend announced a “political and very topical” U.S. leg of his tour.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called Springsteen a “bad, and very boring singer… 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, sometimes referred to as TDS.”
“The guy is a total loser who spews hate,” he added, before listing off his second administration’s perceived successes.
Trump then wrote that “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!!”
Springsteen kicked off his “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” in Minneapolis on Monday. He also performed over the weekend during the latest string of “No Kings” protests in the city.
Federal immigration enforcement operations in the state, which led to the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents in January, prompted the artist to write the song “Streets of Minneapolis.”
“The tour is going to be political and very topical about what’s going on in the country,” Springsteen said last week, describing the tour to The Minnesota Star Tribune. “Minneapolis and St. Paul, that was the place I wanted to begin it, and I wanted to end it in Washington.”
He told the Tribune that he does not worry about any political blowback he could face when he challenges Trump or the administration’s actions. He added that he’s “ready for all that.”
“My job is very simple: I do what I want to do, I say what I want to say and then people get to say what they want to say about it,” the “Born to Run” singer told the outlet. “Those are the rules of my game. That’s fine with me.”
“I don’t worry about if you’re going to lose this part of your audience,” he added. “I’ve always had a feeling about the position we play culturally, and I’m still deeply committed to that idea of the band.”
Trump and “The Boss” have been vocal critics of each other for years. Springsteen endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, calling the then-GOP nominee “the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.”
“His 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 should disqualify him from the office of president, ever again,” Springsteen said in a video posted on Instagram ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The president has clapped back at Springsteen, which has only generated support for the rocker from other musicians ranging from Bono to Eddie Vedder. Last May, Trump shared a video depicting him striking a golf ball before the video cuts to Springsteen falling onstage. An animated golf ball hits him in the back.
He wrote on Truth Social that same month that he “never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics,” calling Springsteen a “mentally incompetent FOOL.”