Bruce Springsteen Says He’ll Keep Speaking Out Against President Trump
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Bruce Springsteen — long candid about his political views — told Time in a cover interview published on Thursday, September 25, 2025, that he plans to continue speaking out about President Donald Trump. In the piece he describes why he won’t remain silent.
Speaking during the kickoff of his Land of Hope and Dreams tour in Manchester on May 14, Springsteen said he intends to remain consistent with the values he’s voiced throughout his career and refused to give public figures a pass for conduct he finds unacceptable. During that performance he accused the administration of serious misconduct onstage; parts of the speech were later included on the EP The Land of Hope and Dreams.
Two days after that Manchester show, Trump answered on his Truth Social account with harsh personal attacks and a warning for Springsteen to refrain from commenting publicly when he returns to the country.
Springsteen — who backed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 election — told Time he isn’t concerned with the president’s insults. He argued that the president personifies the very concerns that the 25th Amendment and impeachment processes are meant to address, and suggested that, if Congress acted decisively, Trump’s place in history would be diminished. (The 25th Amendment deals with presidential succession and incapacitation.)
The musician’s confrontation with Trump continued beyond those exchanges. The former president later accused Springsteen and Beyoncé — both of whom supported Harris — of participating in an “illegal election scam” by allegedly accepting payments for campaign appearances; those allegations were debunked by independent fact-checkers. In a June interview with The New York Times, Springsteen called Trump a “moron” and condemned recent ICE raids as “disgusting” and a “terrible tragedy.”
Reflecting on the political landscape, Springsteen told Time that many Americans accepted the president’s falsehoods, and that Trump’s priorities seem directed toward enriching himself and his backers rather than serving the forgotten or marginalized. He added that the country needs political alternatives or for the Democratic Party to find a leader who can genuinely connect with a broader portion of the electorate.
Billboard has reached out to the White House for comment.
New Releases and Projects
Springsteen also has new projects on the horizon. A five-disc expanded edition of his acclaimed 1982 album Nebraska — titled Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition — is scheduled for release on . The set is said to include unreleased material, sessions by the E Street Band often referred to as the “Electric Nebraska” recordings, and an alternate version of the Top 10 single “Born in the U.S.A.” In addition, the film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, about the making of Nebraska and starring Jeremy Allen White, is slated to open in theaters on .
Time Magazine Cover
See Springsteen’s Time cover and post below:
