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Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’

Rock’n’roll legend makes series of blistering speeches on stage in Manchester, targeting ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’
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Introducing the song that gives the tour its name, he said: “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous 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!”

Later, introducing House of a Thousand Guitars, he said: “The last check, the last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people, you and me. It’s in the union of people around a common set of values now that’s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. So at the end of the day, all we’ve got is each other.”

He then delivered a longer speech ahead of the song My City of Ruins, saying:

There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now.

In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.

In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers.

They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society.

They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands.

They are removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centres and prisons. This is all happening now.

A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American.

The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and regardless of its faults is a great country with a great people. So we’ll survive this moment. Now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, ‘In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’ Let’s pray.
 
27th and last song of the night was

Chimes of Freedom
(Bob Dylan cover) (first time since 1988)

Bruce sung that 20 times on the Human Rights Now Tour in 20 shows in 1988 that had a number of artists perform to raise funds for Amnesty International, after he sung it to 300,000 people in East Berlin a couple of months earlier.

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Bruce Springsteen Setlist at Co-op Live, Manchester

Get the Bruce Springsteen Setlist of the concert at Co-op Live, Manchester, England on May 14, 2025 from the The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour and other Bruce Springsteen Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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SA HAWK said:
Seeing him in Frankfurt in 1 months time hope he keeps the political speeches out of the show.

Nobody outside the u.s. wants to hear this shit.
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Yes I do. I look forward to hearing it at every one of the 12 European shows I’m going to.
 
SA HAWK said:
Seeing him in Frankfurt in 1 months time hope he keeps the political speeches out of the show.

Nobody outside the u.s. wants to hear this shit.
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The bloke can at least come out and say he has been paid millions of dollars by the Democrats the last decade to promote them for transparency reasons….

Funny the people the guy claims to represent in his songs are the ones that vote trump but he still feels fit to talk down to them and tell them it’s them that’s wrong. Sooks about democracy ending when democracy actually was what delivered the result..
 
SA HAWK said:
Seeing him in Frankfurt in 1 months time hope he keeps the political speeches out of the show.

Nobody outside the u.s. wants to hear this shit.
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Won't happen.

Sell your ticket and let someone go who will enjoy the show in its entirety. I know plenty of people looking for a ticket.
Goroyals22 said:
The bloke can at least come out and say he has been paid millions of dollars by the Democrats the last decade to promote them for transparency reasons….

Funny the people the guy claims to represent in his songs are the ones that vote trump but he still feels fit to talk down to them and tell them it’s them that’s wrong. Sooks about democracy ending when democracy actually was what delivered the result..
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You've not been here prior to this week, nobody cares about your agenda.
 

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pjcrows said:
I find it hilarious that people are shocked and outraged that Bruce Springsteen isn't a fan of right wing politicians and airs his grievances publicly. I mean, the sky is also blue.
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But Born in the USA is a patriotic song
 

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